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Dec. 30, 2024 - The David Knight Show

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Mon 30Dec24 — The Bad & REALLY UGLY Fight Over H1-B. Will MAGA Finally See Who Musk, Trump, & Ramaswamy Are?

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	Music Using free speech to free minds.
	You're listening to The David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Monday, the 30th of December, the 30th of December, year of our Lord 2024.
	Well, today we're going to begin with the back and forth tantrum that happened on Twitter.
	The Civil War of Maugabe.
	Who knew?
	Who knew that Musk and Trump were all in favor of immigration?
	As we build this wall, it's something of a Maginot line, isn't it?
	An imaginary line, but it's kind of like the Maginot line that the French built.
	As we block people coming in from one area, they come in...
	In another area, they come in from the top down.
	We're going to take a look at, first of all, what is an H-1B visa?
	What is this program?
	What has its history been?
	How is it working?
	How is it being exploited?
	This is not just a matter of America first.
	This is the great replacement here.
	And then we're going to take a look at the Civil War with it, but we're also going to take a look at the escalation of bird flu.
	We've now got Lena Nguyen back, that evil woman.
	COVID is back.
	We'll be right back.
	Sorry, I hit that.
	laughter Cut that off real quickly there.
	And we're back.
	I guess I'm a little rusty after taking four days off.
	But thank you so much, everyone, for the help that you gave us, donations.
	We are at the 100% mark, so take the next couple of days off.
	We just want to thank you.
	For your generosity and your kindness and to thank Gard for taking the show on Friday.
	So we had a live show.
	We did have some good replays of interviews.
	We had Jedward Griffin and Catherine Austin Fitz and others on the replay of the interview.
	But really do appreciate Gard taking the show live.
	It's always good to have his insights.
	And I don't know if this stuff, because I just got out of the news completely.
	I don't know if all this stuff on Twitter, I guess it did start, because I think it started on Christmas Day.
	So, you know, this is something that has been there.
	I'll give you my take on what I think is going on with the H-1B visa stuff.
	You know, we've got people who are both Democrats and Republicans.
	You've got a Republican congressman, Eric Schmidt, a Democrat congressman, Ro Khanna, who is also an Indian.
	And, you know, the Indian issue is a big part of this, largely because of the way these personnel companies are operating.
	And so that's where a lot of the H-1B visa program is coming in.
	But as I said at the beginning, this wall, this immigration wall, you know, they're so excited about the immigration wall.
	Biden was going to sell off the parts that he never used to build the wall.
	MAGA was outraged over it.
	Texas said, we'll pay for the parts.
	We'll buy them.
	Now they've got a court opinion, a judge, that has said, you can't sell these right away before Trump gets in.
	But does it really make any difference to have that?
	I've said that from the very beginning.
	The problem is the welfare magnet that is there.
	And the problem with the H-1B visa program is the fraud.
	Always we've seen the Democrats have wanted open borders because of voting, but also because of Cloward and Piven.
	It's the welfare magnet.
	They know that what they want to do is they want to make everybody dependent on government.
	That's the bottom line.
	And we see this in everything that they do.
	It's not anything that's new, really, to look at the 15-minute cities and the restrictions on car ownership and even plane use and all the rest of the stuff because the people who are The ones who always want to grow government, the big government types, the socialists, the communists, the Marxists, the Democrats, if you will.
	They always want to make everybody dependent on government for everything.
	I've mentioned this before when I was in Raleigh, city council there.
	There were a couple of people trying to push through a monorail system for Raleigh.
	It doesn't have the population density of that.
	Certainly didn't have it 30 some odd years ago.
	And I went to a city council meeting, and this was before the Soviet Union fell in 1989. So this is in the, you know, like 87, 88, something like that.
	And she says, I just got back from Russia, Moscow.
	She loved the Moscow subway system as much as Tucker Carlson.
	She was saying, it only costs a nickel and you can go anywhere, and we need that here in Raleigh.
	And it's like, it's going to cost us a lot more than a nickel.
	It costs them everything, all right?
	It costs you everything when the government decides that it's going to control everything.
	They want people dependent on them for housing.
	They want people dependent on them for education.
	They want people dependent on them for food, even.
	Food stamps and other things.
	And they want people dependent on them for transportation.
	Everything that you can imagine.
	They want you to be dependent on them.
	And so that's a big part of what's going on with, you know, the welfare magnet.
	It isn't just that they want people that they think are going to vote for Democrats.
	And a lot of Hispanics don't.
	And they're fed up.
	Hispanics that come in, for the most part, are socially religious conservatives.
	I'm not talking about the drug cartels and things like that that are open.
	That's a different story.
	Of course, that's open for them as well.
	The borders are wide open for the criminal cartels.
	And of course, how did we get those criminal cartels in Mexico and Venezuela and other places?
	Because of our war on drugs.
	Our war on drugs created those cartels, just like you had Al Capone created by alcohol prohibition.
	So it's not a surprise.
	These things always happen like this.
	But they're going to continue with the war on drugs, and they're going to continue with the welfare program, bringing people on.
	But people aren't necessarily going to vote for Democrats, because they don't like all of this LGBT insanity, the tranny insanity, and stuff like that.
	That's a bit too far for them coming in.
	But they want to use this as a way to collapse america because they want everybody dependent on them so it's the voters but it's also collapsing america with the cloward and piven strategy which you know they formulated it and everybody calls it that but you can clearly see this coming a long ways off uh you know that it is unsustainable the republicans on the other hand have always wanted because they want cheap labor and in the past that has been factories That
	has been large, big agricultural firms, that type of thing, big ag.
	But now it's also big tech.
	And that's where the fight is.
	And I just don't understand why MAGA is so astounded at all of this.
	Because during the campaign, we had Ramaswamy come on with Musk and And the two of them, and I reported on it at the time, I said, look at this.
	These people absolutely despise us.
	And now, Musk's despising of Americans, his utter contempt for Americans, and Ramaswamy as well.
	We're stupid.
	We're retarded.
	We can't work.
	Only people like them can work.
	Well, why did you come to this country in the first place?
	Why didn't you stay where you were?
	It's because we built a better country, and you're here to pillage it.
	With your subsidies from the government.
	I cannot express my contempt for Elon Musk enough.
	This guy has completely bought the Republican Party.
	You got Rand Paul out there, servile, licking his boots.
	Well, maybe we could make him Speaker of the House and nonsense like that.
	It's disgusting to watch this.
	And finally, you had some MAGA people who had had enough.
	On this immigration issue.
	And when they criticized it, Musk showed what he was truly about.
	Just in case you think the richest people are the smartest people, that's not the case.
	It would have been a lot smarter for him to keep his face shut.
	Instead, he was saying, F your face, that type of thing.
	I mean, it was the rage that he showed over the weekend.
	Truly amazing.
	I mean, I didn't pay any attention to any of this stuff until looking at it yesterday, and it's like, whoa!
	So, perhaps you haven't been following it that closely either.
	It truly is amazing.
	Laura Loomer.
	Surprisingly said, and she's right about this, for once, Laura Loomer was right.
	She said, you're substituting a third world migrant invasion for a third world tech invasion.
	Yep, yep.
	So I say the Maginot line, right?
	The Maginot line, when France was attacked by Germany in World War I, they said, well, that's it.
	We're going to put up a big wall.
	And we're going to keep those Germans from doing that again.
	And so what happened was they put up this big wall of fortifications, and the Germans just flew over it in World War II. And so what's happening is that you can go over a wall, you can go under a wall, you can round a wall.
	You don't necessarily even need to go through the wall.
	There's a lot of ways to get over it.
	And so this is exactly right.
	There's one kind of migrant invasion versus another kind of migrant invasion.
	And as we see and have seen for the longest time, the people who were exploiting illegal immigrants for the longest time, they were exploiting their status.
	They were not only, you know, it wasn't like an above-board thing necessarily, where they would come in and, because they were illegal immigrants, The employers could say, well, we're going to pay you less, and you're going to take that.
	Or we will turn you in to the government, and you will be out of here completely.
	And so that's the kind of exploitation that's always been around.
	Against people who are here illegally.
	And we see elements of that as well in these massive personnel companies that have come together to fraudulently expose the H-1B visa program.
	This was intended to bring in people like Einstein, for example.
	People who are highly valued individuals and want to bring them in and make them American citizens or let them work on the Manhattan Project so we can blow up the world.
	You know, that type of thing.
	The stuff that is dear to the heart of the military-industrial complex and CIA that actually run this country.
	But the people coming in are not necessarily Einsteins, and they're not necessarily all engineers at the top either.
	There's a lot of people who are making middle-class salaries or less than middle-class salaries to eviscerate the middle class.
	And coming in and taking jobs as accountants and other things like that.
	And part of this, and I'll talk to you about how these companies exploit the people who are coming in from India, for example.
	But in this particular case, you've got Ro Khanna, a Democrat and an Indian himself, and Eric Schmidt, a Republican.
	These two congressmen are criticizing this.
	And so Schmidt is saying qualified Americans are being denied a lot of these jobs because a company can go out and hire cheap labor from a foreign country.
	That's right.
	And so, when you look at the way this thing is operated, it's incredibly fraudulent.
	Ro Khanna said, you can't underpay these H-1B folks coming in.
	The program shouldn't be for accountants or for entry-level IT jobs.
	It should really be for exceptional talent.
	And we should have that kind of balance.
	And so the numbers are exploding.
	It's skewing towards entry-level positions and white-collar jobs.
	You know, not just engineering or tech jobs, but it's in accounting jobs as well.
	But this is something that Musk and Ramaswamy, and it made me, you know, I had my Musk-Ramaswamy moment earlier this year when Ramaswamy was still running.
	So, no, I didn't look up the date.
	But I remember Musk had him on a Spaces thing, you know, to interview him.
	And the two of them bonded.
	That's when they bonded over their contempt for Americans and how pathetic we are in this country.
	So go back to India.
	Go back to India.
	You don't like America?
	You don't like Americans?
	Get out of here, Rama Slimy.
	You disgust me.
	You want to have some kind of a Brahmin caste system?
	That's what these big tech people are doing.
	Take a look at Google, for example.
	Case in point.
	Sundar Pichai.
	Is he Einstein?
	Not by a long shot.
	He's not Steve Jobs either.
	This is a guy who is just, he's a classic example of this.
	How has Google done since he took over the reins?
	They're sitting on a stack of cash that is so large they can't lose.
	When they are losing to their competition, what do they do?
	They buy them out.
	I've seen this happen with product after product, app after app.
	They go buy all the people.
	Go back to the DARPA competition that they had.
	DARPA, one of their competition, of course, the first DARPA competition was a self-driving car, self-driving vehicle.
	Yeah, Elon Musk, he's a defense contractor, folks.
	Anyway, that was their first one.
	But along the line, I guess maybe about eight, ten years ago, they had a robotics thing.
	It was after Fukushima.
	When was Fukushima?
	Was it 2015 or something?
	Anyway, after that, they said, well, we need to have some autonomous robots that can go in and shut down a power plant like that when something happens.
	Or maybe what you do is you build coal power plants.
	That would be one thing that we could all do.
	It'd be a lot cheaper and everything.
	The electricity would be cheaper.
	You wouldn't need the robots.
	But of course, that's not really what they want it for.
	They want autonomous robots that they can use as police to keep us in line.
	They can use as soldiers too.
	But anyway, as part of that contest, Google entered that contest with their robot, Boston Dynamics and several others, and there was about a dozen of them.
	And not all of them were able to complete the obstacle course, but of the ones that were able to, and Google didn't win.
	They didn't have the best performing robot by far.
	But what they did was they bought every single robotics company that competed in that.
	And that's what they do.
	They constantly buy up their competition and then ruin it with a bunch of people that they've hired, a bunch of DEI hires, not a meritocracy.
	And of course, Elon Musk wants you to believe that it's a meritocracy.
	Well, his companies may be run on a meritocracy basis, but not all of them.
	So, when you look at how this thing is operating, it is a...
	It's a fraud.
	It's a fraud on the American people.
	It's even a fraud on the big tech companies, really.
	And so Congressman Schmidt, Eric Schmidt, this is not the Eric Schmidt of Google, this is a representative from Missouri, said American workers have been left behind by this economy.
	No, they're being left behind by big tech and by Musk and by Silicon Valley.
	It's not an economy that is doing it to people.
	Just like it's not the pandemic that did it to people.
	No.
	It was Trump's actions that he took in regards to something that he claimed was a pandemic.
	This is not some nebulous economy.
	The economy did this or that.
	The economy is not an actor.
	But he said...
	About this debate, he said, I think it's an important, thoughtful debate that is happening.
	But the context that we need to, I think, keep in mind here is that the American workers have been left behind by the economy.
	Many factory jobs have been sent overseas.
	This is because of Paris.
	See, they won't address the Paris Climate Accord.
	They won't address the root causes of all this stuff.
	With the Paris Climate Accord, we have outsourced All manufacturing, all carbon, if you will, okay?
	We've outsourced cheap energy to China and to India.
	They're allowed to do whatever they want.
	And China is exploding in terms of the coal plants that it's building, and they don't clean them up at all.
	And so that's another example of fraud.
	If this is global warming and you're worried about the global CO2... And why aren't you worried about the people who are expanding it without even trying to clean anything up and doing it at an astounding rate?
	No, this is about outsourcing our jobs, and they're not going to talk about that.
	And so it says our factory jobs have been outsourced to overseas.
	And you have the sons and the daughters of those factory workers who lost their jobs and got white-collar jobs as accountants, and they're now having to train their replacements to foreign workers who are undercutting their wages.
	This is nothing new.
	This had happened, I think, even before Trump became president.
	The stuff with Disney.
	You remember that, right?
	That was a big deal when it happened.
	Disney had all kinds of people have been working for them for quite some time.
	They just hired a bunch of H-1B visas and told the Americans that were there, you're going to train your replacements.
	And if you do, we'll give you another month or so of salary.
	And it was actually, yeah, I've got it here.
	It's 2016 that Trump talked about that.
	And that's when he was running for president.
	He didn't become president until 2017. The campaign was in 2016. And he talked about Disney specifically.
	And he said he was going to get rid of H-1B visas.
	And we'll talk about what he actually did.
	And what he's talking about doing now.
	But the debate appeared to originate from a suggestion from Sriram Krishnan.
	That Trump has picked as a White House policy advisor on artificial intelligence.
	And he and Musk talking about getting rid of the caps on green cards for skilled immigrants.
	Well, the people that we're talking about are not the people who are creating artificial intelligence.
	It's not that.
	I mean, we're looking at middle class jobs, middle class white collar jobs that are being taken.
	These are not the top scientists and AI, even if that is something that you think that we need to have.
	So the first order of business, I think, for the Trump administration is the deportations that are going to begin on day one.
	The executive orders that are coming, said Eric Schmidt.
	He said, but the broader issue here is mass migration that has undercut jobs, wages, and increasing housing costs.
	So, let's talk about how this thing is rigged.
	They supposedly have a lottery, okay?
	And they have a certain number of staff that are coming in.
	And none of these things are working as we were told they were going to work.
	Every year they have a lottery to determine who gets the H-1B visas to work in the U.S. And how do they rig that game?
	Well, you have a few personnel companies.
	Just a few of them.
	A handful of them.
	And what they're doing is they're swamping the system.
	In other words, they're like buying all the tickets for the lottery.
	And they are putting in multiple applicants, and sometimes they'll even win the lottery, and they don't have somebody take the job.
	They're just swamping it.
	So it's not that somebody's out there saying, you know, I really need somebody who's got expertise in whatever it is.
	No, no, no.
	And that's how they are getting all of these middle-class jobs.
	They created the H-1B in 1990. Congress did.
	To help American businesses get the world's top talent.
	But instead what it's doing is it's eviscerating middle class white collar jobs.
	Because they bring in lower level workers, they pay lower wages and all of this stuff.
	And I guess the question is, is this program working?
	Has America gained its technological edge since 1990?
	Are we doing a lot better?
	It's kind of like the question about Google, right?
	Or, you know, pick any of these companies.
	Some of the people are successful, some of them are not.
	But as one person pointed out on Twitter, talking about how he said he was German and he went to India as a software engineer.
	He worked for a billionaire there.
	And he did a job for him and got to be friends with the guy.
	The guy...
	Told him, he said, I can't get any good engineering staff because all the engineers are going to America.
	So the German guy thought, what am I doing here in India?
	If all the Indians are leaving and going to America, I should go there too because they're paying more money.
	And so he put his name in the hat.
	And, you know, he was an experienced, successful person, but...
	He was not the right nationality, and he didn't go to the right schools.
	You see, that's a big part of it.
	People like Sundar Pichai, they go to the Ivy League schools, and that gets them an entree into these jobs.
	So if you are, you know, the path for most of these people, other than, you know, the ones that are coming in with these lotteries in the middle class, if you want to go to the top, they have to, they're picking people from these Ivy League schools.
	So they come to America to go to school.
	Say you're a regular American business that wants to hire a foreign graduate from a top U.S. university.
	See?
	That's it.
	You want to get a foreigner from a top U.S. university so you can pay them less money.
	That's all it's about.
	You would lose this candidate in the lottery 70% of the time, even if that was what you were looking for.
	Let's say you're looking for somebody who specializes in some particular field.
	Maybe they got a master's degree, maybe even a PhD in it.
	Well, no, most of these slots now are going to, that was what this was intended for.
	But now most of these slots are going to go to middle class, white collar jobs, accountants or whatever.
	That is what happened to Sandeep Maganti, a talented engineer from India who founded his own startup.
	An outsourcing firm, however, can draw its vast workforce in India and can put in three times the number of tickets.
	And it doesn't care who gets selected, as long as somebody gets selected, they make their money.
	And so they don't have to...
	Part of the problem is that, although it says you're supposed to have proof of a legitimate job offer for each lottery entry...
	The government isn't looking for any proof.
	It's kind of like what they did with PPP. Payroll protection plan.
	We're going to give this money to those small businesses that Trump said are non-essential.
	Except what Trump did was he redefined what a small business was.
	And then all the big guys got all the money.
	More than 50% of the money went to 5% of the applicants, the ones who were really big.
	It was the exact opposite of the way the program was going to happen.
	And so they don't have to Prove that they've got a job for this people.
	So you've got a lot of people who are at the massive scale of cheating.
	The government has called it fraud, but even though they know they're being defrauded, there's no punishment for this.
	They don't tell these companies they're defrauding them.
	Sorry, you can't participate in the lottery next year because you committed fraud.
	No, they let them do it.
	And so they get 70% of the spots that are there.
	Actually, St. Clair said a big-shot employment attorney in California called me last night about H-1B visa fraud and trafficking of workers.
	And that's what this exactly is.
	Here's what she said.
	The market is cornered by visa body shops who apply for approximately half of the visas.
	The economics of it, these body shops are headed by former hiring managers from big tech companies.
	They bring people to America, they rent apartments for them, and they house about 10 of them together in one apartment.
	They put these recipients through a four-week boot camp of basic tech training, they fraudulently rewrite their resumes, and they teach them how to interview.
	The body shops land them jobs primarily at the companies that these hiring managers came from, and they pay the workers less than half of the money in hand.
	Here's an example.
	A job is listed as a $200,000 salary, but the company is contracted with a body shop, not the H-1B worker.
	And so the worker is actually paid closer to $40 an hour, which is about $77,000 a year instead of $200,000 a year.
	And that company pockets the difference.
	$123,000 for the company, $77,000 for the worker.
	The body shop pockets most of the money, and they're making millions, essentially trafficking people.
	Now, Mark Hall did an interesting documentary.
	I've mentioned it several times before, and I've interviewed Mark many times about his documentary, Killing Ed.
	And in it, he looked at a worst-case scenario for charter schools, which was a bunch of schools that were sold as schools of science and math.
	Isn't that interesting?
	And so a lot of people look at these charter schools, a lot of Americans say, yeah, I want my kid getting a science and math education.
	Except they're not.
	And that's just a label that they use for it.
	But it was a network of people.
	It was this Turkish cleric, Fatala Gulen, who just recently died.
	He was brought here by the CIA. Had a compound, a very secretive compound, up in Pennsylvania.
	And last time I looked at this, which was about five or six years ago, just in Texas alone, they were making nearly a billion dollars in terms of state money for these schools.
	Now, when Mark Hall did, again, you can find the documentaries called Killing It, and when he did an investigation on what was happening with these charter schools, everywhere else in the world, Fatala Gulen's schools would run as Islamic madrasas, but in the United States, they used the label of science and math.
	They still were recruiting people for Islam and for Turkey and that type of thing.
	They just wouldn't do it In the school explicitly, but they would take students and they would take a lot of politicians on junkets to Turkey.
	To get them to see things their way.
	And they were recruiting a lot of students into their way of thinking.
	He was a Muslim cleric, a mystic, you know.
	He was fighting Erdogan.
	The two of them were, first they were buddies in terms of making Turkey less secular and more Islamic.
	And then they became competitors and Fatala Gulen was kicked out.
	A lot of people didn't want him in the United States, but the CIA got him in.
	But getting back to what was happening in the schools, it was very much like this.
	The schools would bring in math teachers from Turkey.
	And there were some American teachers and they were whistleblowers.
	And they talked to the press.
	They talked to Mark Hall about it in the documentary.
	And they said, they're bringing in these people and saying that they're math whizzes or whatever.
	And they said, they don't know anything at all.
	And yet they're paying them two, two and a half times what the American teachers are being paid.
	And they knew that what was happening was they would give them, they would take this money in from charters from Texas and other states.
	They would pay exorbitant salaries to these people that they brought in from Turkey.
	And they were expected to kick that back, and they did.
	Kick that back to the organization.
	Same thing they're doing with these body shops, is what they call it, in Silicon Valley.
	Except they're coming out of India, that type of thing.
	But that's the racket.
	That's the racket.
	How does this stuff always work?
	Well, it always works because government and government tolerates that kind of fraud and actually sets up these systems.
	Bottom line, these people like Musk and like Rama Slimy and big business in general...
	They're not bringing in the best people because they want a meritocracy.
	That's what Musk is saying.
	And it's an absolute lie.
	That's what Ramaswamy is saying.
	And when they say that, by extension, and they got very explicit about it over the weekend, they trash Americans.
	You people are garbage.
	You don't know what you're doing.
	But the reality is, It's just the greed and the exploitation of people like Elon Musk and Rama Slimy, who no matter how much money they have, they always want more.
	And they're going to profit at the expense of Americans.
	And they're going to eviscerate the middle class as they have been doing.
	A lot of people who are talking about this says, you know, it's time we have this discussion.
	We should have this debate.
	Because Americans are looking and saying, why are things so much worse off for us now?
	This is one of the reasons.
	It's not the only reason.
	There's a lot of reasons out there.
	But this is one of the reasons.
	And so people need to understand what is being done to them since 1990. And how this thing is fraudulent.
	So again, they want to take down the standard of living in America.
	They want to undermine Americans.
	And this is, you know, why wealth is being concentrated at the top.
	You know, why do you have Elon Musk as not only the wealthiest person in the world, but the wealthiest person that ever lived?
	It's obscene how much money he makes.
	It really is.
	But it's not enough for him.
	And I say that because he's done some good things.
	He's got the only rockets that work.
	Boeing can't make rockets that are effective.
	Nevertheless, he's fed at the public trough.
	First time I talked to Eric Peters, we talked about how he's the king of crony capitalism.
	L.A. Times was talking about it back then.
	But...
	Yeah, if you want a caste system with a few wealthy people at the top, this is the way it happens.
	Theo Wold said, I led the drafting of legislation in the first Trump White House to create a new legal immigration framework.
	I saw firsthand what happens when any visa reform is proposed.
	You have executives from the biggest multinationals and lobbyists from all kinds of industries banging on the door demanding to keep what they have.
	And how did they get?
	Why are they banging on the door and demanding to keep what they have?
	Well, it's because they paid for it.
	I mean, they bought these politicians and they want these people to pony up.
	He said what they have is a tangled morass of visa classes that are carve-outs, handouts, and special favors to particular industries.
	And particularly individuals that are bought and paid for through decades of lobbying feckless members of Congress and presidential administrations.
	It's people who've sold us out, like Trump has sold us out.
	You know, what did Musk buy?
	He bought Donald Trump.
	$250, $260 million, whatever the number is.
	He owns Trump.
	And you've got people...
	Like I said, Rand Paul and other people just fawning over him.
	It is amazing to see these people and what prostitutes they are, these politicians.
	Boy, they smell the money and it's like, hey, sailor boy, you liking me?
	You know, that type of thing, right?
	It's like you're at a Shanghai dock and you've just landed.
	And it's one of these, you know, whenever Elon Musk goes around, oh, let's make him Speaker of the House and all the rest of this stuff.
	So, continuing what Theo Wold said.
	He said, He says, firsthand because i grew up a working class kid watching my father and by extension our family suffer from unfair foreign labor competition for too long
	americans have been largely unaware of the source of these problems they're designed to be too complicated made largely invisible to public scrutiny and i'm glad that the right is having an open debate about legal immigration it has passed time well elon musk is not happy about that because he's been one of the beneficiaries of illegal immigration and all of it and all of it essentially all visa classes he says are abused again
	that's because these things exist to serve special interests on one side of the labor market and it's not the side of the american worker as h.l meekin said and i quote frequently he said an election is an advanced auction of stolen goods and In this particular case, what is being stolen is a middle class.
	Vince Dow, an Asian, says, speaking as an Asian American, he said, America does not need to adopt Asian culture mindset in order to win.
	Yes, Asians are smart, but we're not great at thinking for ourselves outside of the box.
	Asian culture discourages creativity and nonconformity.
	Oh, that is absolutely true.
	I've seen it.
	I've had friends...
	Who grew up in Japan, she said, boy, the saying is really true.
	The nail that sticks up will be hammered down.
	Boy, they want you to conform in every way possible.
	And they want you to just live your life there.
	I talked about it when I talked about the culture of Taiwan and how they expect the engineers to live there.
	Even when there's no work to be done, they would frown upon the Americans leaving.
	It's like, you're just staying here to virtue signal about how dedicated you are to the company?
	Do you have a life at all?
	There has to be some kind of a balance there.
	But here's what Vince Dow says.
	He says...
	Asian culture discourages creativity and nonconformity.
	America might go a little bit too far today with this, but American culture historically has encouraged creativity and nonconformity.
	That is the reason that America is responsible for so much innovation in history, and still today.
	U.S. culture has its issues, sure, but the American mindset is a fundamentally good one.
	It built this country, it won world wars, etc., and it can do so again.
	I've got to say, though, in all of this discussion, And he's keeping it about economics and everything.
	You know, I don't see things that way.
	And I hope you don't either.
	The people who founded this country, the founders of this country had Christian values.
	They may not have been your idea what an Orthodox Christian is or not.
	I don't know.
	It's impossible for me.
	Oh, they were Freemasons or this or that.
	Look, you can't judge that one way or the other, I think, accurately this far away.
	What we can see are the policies, and we can see the principles that were put into place, and those were Christian principles.
	And, you know, even somebody like Ben Franklin, who is denounced as a deist, believed that God had interacted on America's side.
	That's not deism.
	That's a God who is close by.
	He says, you know, we prevailed over the strongest empire in the world.
	This small country did.
	And we need to ask for God's help and providence as we create this constitution, he said.
	Now, the other people did not go along with it.
	But, you know, that was a big part of the values that were there.
	Look, I see what has happened to America.
	It's not that Americans are better than anybody.
	We're not smarter than anybody else.
	We're not harder working than anybody else.
	Our prosperity was a blessing from God.
	And in all of this talk...
	About H-1B visas and all the rest of the stuff, that is what's lost.
	And we have thumbed our nose at God.
	That's the key thing.
	And, you know, as angry as people are about Elon Musk, you know, and as they push back against Elon Musk, imagine how God feels.
	Elon Musk just thinks he's God.
	What does real God think, okay?
	When we look at all this, when all we're concerned about is money, and who is the better worker?
	Who's the smarter person?
	All the rest of this stuff.
	Where does God fit into any of this?
	That's the problem for America, right there.
	That's the problem.
	You know, when we won those two world wars, we were a different country.
	We trusted in God.
	And we at least gave lip service to following God.
	Not anymore.
	Not anymore.
	Our country is being taken from us and given to other people.
	That's the bottom line.
	Because that's what God does when he judges a country.
	And it has already started in this country.
	I'll finish up with what Vince Dow had to say, though, about his education.
	He said, contrary to what some people think, I wasn't raised by a traditional tiger mom, an Asian mom, you know, pushing the kid really hard.
	He said, she was very tough with school, but she made sure I was well-rounded in all subjects, not just in math.
	She stressed critical thinking more than process repetition, which is the Western way of thinking.
	What critical thinking is.
	She also encouraged me to pursue things that I was interested in.
	She knew I liked history, so she got me lots of history books and took me to museums and things like that.
	And by the way, when we're talking about process repetition and we talk about critical thinking, it's not just a thing that, well, Asians...
	Asians don't do critical thinking.
	They do process, reputation.
	Well, they do process, reputation, and they work at it.
	But in general, what's being taught in our schools now is not critical thinking.
	It's an indoctrination.
	And what is being taught in our schools now is the worst kind of conformity.
	You conform to the insanity.
	You conform to the 2 plus 2 equals 5 Orwellian demands.
	I know that you can see reality here, but you're going to deny that reality.
	You're going to, you know, you can see the reality, but you're going to double think, and you're going to believe that what I tell you, that 2 plus 2 equals 5, you're going to believe that's true.
	That's what they're inculcating in kids now, in the schools.
	Anyway, so his mom tried to get him a well-rounded education, tried to Lean into the things that he was interested in.
	He said, But again, I've looked at this, you know, from the very beginning when we homeschooled our sons.
	The question is, what are we going to teach them?
	And why do we teach them this and not that?
	And we made a determination from a very early age that we were more interested in their character than anything else.
	Critical thinking was important.
	Character was important.
	And they were pretty much the entire thing we focused on.
	And I remember it was a thing back then.
	People would have bumper stickers that would be given to them if their kid made the honor roll.
	I have an honor student at such and such a school, right?
	You see that all the time.
	All these different schools are handing these things out.
	And I told Karen, I said, because we were forced to have a name for a home school in North Carolina.
	I said, we need to make up one custom bumper sticker that says, I have honorable students at the name of our school.
	Because that's what we were focused on.
	We're focused on them being honorable, not on making the honor roll.
	So, the data suggests that big tech is replacing qualified and capable American workers with cheaper foreign labor.
	It's just that simple.
	And between 2022 and 2024, Amazon, for example...
	Laid off nearly 30,000 high-skilled workers in the same period, though in compliance with the federal law regarding when companies can request H-1B visa workers.
	See, that's the problem.
	The law allows this.
	Amazon expanded its workforce by nearly 100,000 foreign workers while they laid off 30,000 American workers.
	Despite the layoffs, Amazon asked the federal government for a total allotment Of 125,000 new H-1B visa workers in that two-year period.
	Ultimately, the entire need for H-1B workers is predicated on a supposed domestic worker shortage.
	Current Native-born American labor force participation is around 63%.
	Foreign-born labor force participation is 68%.
	Wall Street Journal said census data shows immigrants who arrived since the start of 2020 are more than twice as likely to lack a high school diploma as a U.S.-born worker.
	They want to make it about merit.
	They want to tell us that we are uneducated, lazy people.
	And this is the guy who became the richest person in the world by feeding off of the trough And the American government primarily.
	Elon Musk disgusts me.
	Absolutely disgusts me.
	We're going to take a break and I'll read some of your comments here.
	DGA, thank you for the tip.
	He said, David, this is what it looks like when Trump never debated this time.
	People have no idea he changed his stance on the H-1B visa program.
	Worse yet, a media that refuses to question anything he does.
	He flips back and forth all the time.
	The guy, he has no core beliefs.
	He's for sale to the highest bidder.
	Always has been.
	That's what we saw with the pharmaceutical stuff at the very beginning.
	Pfizer and company bought him off at the very beginning.
	He says, David, Alex is saying, leave Musk alone after he took away Shoyer's reach on X. Alex has always been a bootlicker.
	Of billionaires.
	Always.
	Whether it's Patrick Byrne or Elon Musk or Donald Trump or anything, he's always hoping some crumbs are going to fall off the table.
	And it is disgusting to see.
	It really is.
	You know, he and I were on, you know, before everything that happened in 2020, which was just beyond the pale.
	Before that, we had a very different take on Elon Musk.
	And I thought it was kind of funny that it took Elon Musk a while to warm up to Alex.
	You know, I thought, all of that bootlicking for Elon Musk, talking about how he's...
	I remember the day that he shot up on the rocket, he had one of the...
	I think it might have been the first Tesla, the Tesla Roadster, which is a piece of garbage.
	It's so bad that Jeremy Clarkson took it on Top Gear, drove it around a couple of times, and it, you know, it bricked...
	And he talked about it, and Elon Musk sued him, but what Jeremy Clarkson said was true.
	It was a piece of garbage.
	Anyway, he took one of these things, and he shot it up on the rocket, and I just ripped him up one side down the other.
	And then right after I got my show, Alex had started, and he started just...
	This is the most amazing thing.
	He's taking humanity to the stars and all the rest of the stuff.
	And I was calling him a fraud and a charlatan, a conman, showman, all the rest of the stuff.
	Loomer, Bannon, Posobiec, Kevin Sorbo, call them out.
	It is a cult.
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's right.
	Tom McDawg says, my question is, will Stephen Miller stand up against Musk and limit H-1B like he did last time?
	And we're going to talk about the timeline of what happened with H-1B from candidate Trump in 2016 through the Trump administration.
	Donato Bay says, government does have a plan.
	Trump isn't the hero.
	All players scheming to reduce us into a corner.
	The machines they have now will do the evil.
	We are on the menu.
	Don't kid yourself.
	And that's another thing.
	There was a good tweet that was put up by Shiva Ayyadurai about the swarm.
	And he says, we've got seven steps that are going here.
	And I've talked about all seven of those, except for the very first one.
	The first one was about labor unions, and I would disagree with Shiva on that.
	But all the rest of it, I agreed with him on.
	And, you know, and I've always said that the plan is to create this conflict, civil war, because ultimately what they're going to do is they're going to replace the cheap workers and everything with robots.
	And they're going to replace the white-collar workers with AI as well.
	And so what do we do when, and going back to, in South Korea, and it was a study that came out about 2015, 2016, they said by 2030, we're going to have about 50% unemployment across the board, but it was going to be even higher in the white-collar jobs for the doctors, the lawyers, the accountants, and that type of thing.
	It was going to be 70%, they said, by 2030. And so what's going to happen with that?
	We'll talk about that in a moment when we come back after the break.
	Syrian girl, the bottom line of H-1B visa immigrants is that they take jobs away from Americans.
	Companies will hire them to pay less.
	And they'll do it in the name of diversity.
	They'll virtue signal about it.
	Absolutely.
	I mean, just take a look at what's going on with Google.
	And again, when you look at what Google is producing, it's garbage.
	Just look at their chat GPT program.
	People ask them, you know, show me a picture of a...
	Of a 17th century Scotsman, and they're all black and Asian Scots.
	All the rest of the stuff.
	It was a joke.
	Google is a joke.
	They're resting not just on the laurels, but the laurels are this gigantic stash of cash, and they just buy out their competition, and then they ruin those companies when they buy them out.
	Angela Oh, I have two Indian visa employees, my team at work, both started this year making 15 grand more a year than I, and I've been with the company for 10 years.
	I am now cheap labor.
	Wow.
	Wow.
	A Syrian girl, I was told by one of them that they are mostly Brahmin types trying to escape from Indian affirmative action laws favoring the lower castes.
	Oh, so they switched that around.
	Yeah, you know, that's one of the things that Dr. Shiva talks about as well, the caste system that is there.
	You know, and that was the thing that was so different about America.
	You know, Europe didn't have the rigid caste system of India, but they had a highly structured class system, you know, both in France and in the UK and other places like that.
	And that was what Karl Marx exploited for his revolutions.
	Now, here they said, well, that doesn't work in America because there isn't this idea of a class system.
	So what we're going to do is we're going to focus on ethnicity and on race.
	And so that was the plan of people like Gramsci, people like Bill Ayers and others in the 70s of the Weather Underground.
	Psalm 144, thank you for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	I said, hey, David, I'm off work and I get to listen live.
	Hope you had a great Christmas break and Happy New Year to everyone out there.
	We had a great break and I just want to thank everybody so much for the support.
	It was really nice to have some time with family.
	And Karen was sick a bit, but not as sick as she'd been the previous weeks.
	And her brother came and spent the holidays with us.
	Didn't see Travis and his wife and baby except with FaceTime, but it's going to be a while before they get back.
	DG8, thank you for the tip.
	He says, David, the Trump cult was saying Trump needs to stop Musk and Vibach.
	That he doesn't support this.
	And then it comes out that Trump went back on his word from 2016 saying that he opposed it, he supports it now.
	That's right.
	He was against it before he's for it and so forth.
	He doesn't have any principles.
	Guard Goldsmith, good to see you, Guard, and thanks for doing such an excellent job with the show on Friday.
	He said, the feds also have no constitutional power over immigration, so the H-1B issue isn't supposed to be theirs.
	There isn't supposed to be a federal policy over whom I can hire.
	The ethics of politicians, telling my neighbor whom he can or cannot work with, are primary.
	It's unethical to demand and control others.
	Beyond that, the economics are tied to the ethics of The freedom of association would mean elimination of corporate status and elimination of welfare.
	Yeah, we're a long ways off from the Constitution, aren't we?
	It's like this distant thing.
	I think I might be able to see it from here if I got some binoculars.
	Maybe I could get a PCR test.
	With a PCR test and 40 cycles, I might be able to find the Constitution in Washington, but I'm not so sure.
	Might be able to find bird flu fragments out there, you know, whatever that's supposed to be, but I don't know if I could find the Constitution in Washington, even with a PCR test.
	DG8, thank you for the tip.
	David, imagine if they do away with the DEI ignorance, the pool of qualified white males who have been overlooked for years would eliminate any reason to bring foreigners in to take American jobs.
	Yeah, there's a great deal of racism and hate that was on display.
	By Musk and Ramaswamy, especially of this thing.
	We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back.
	And I'm still going to play some Christmas music because it's not New Year's yet.
	So we'll play this because it's also people looking at going home for the holidays.
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	you All right, and let's take a look at what Americans think about this, because we have, this is a poll coming from USA Today.
	They've talked to 35,000 Americans since 2020. Some of them, they just asked some poll questions.
	Some of them, they actually did extended interviews.
	And what they found was that 70% of Americans think the system is rigged against them.
	By powerful elites.
	What is the matter with those 30%?
	The 30%!
	These are the same people out there wearing masks and getting vaccines.
	They are absolutely clueless.
	That's an article from winepressnews.com.
	Study conducted by the Frameworks Institute, an organization owned by USA Today.
	70% of Americans believe people in power are rigging the system to benefit themselves at the expense of the rest of us.
	Yeah.
	So this can lead to productive critiques of power and increased demand for changes that create a fair society.
	But it can also prompt xenophobic and racist scapegoating or lead to fatalism.
	The conclusion that the problem is just too big to solve.
	Well, you don't need to fall into either one of those.
	But isn't it interesting that they would say xenophobia and racism, you know, fear of foreigners.
	Because the 70% of the people that are looking at this saying, yeah, they're rigging the system against us.
	And they've got the levers of power.
	They have marched through the institutions, just as Antonio Gramsci, the founder of the Italian Communist Party, said.
	He said, let's not have a revolution in the streets like they did in Russia.
	No, what will China, what we'll do is we'll have a revolution by marching through the institutions and taking them over.
	And that's a big part of what this is all about, is people have taken it over.
	Fatalism, we don't need to be concerned about that, because if we're a Christian, we know who is in charge, right?
	And we have a different set of values.
	It's not just about the money that is there.
	We don't define ourselves in terms of our salary or our position, do we?
	I hope you don't.
	That's a really poor way to look at life.
	It's a way to be disappointed, I think, always.
	The majority are Republicans and Democrats.
	I think the system is rigged.
	Slightly more Republicans than Democrats.
	It was 72% of Republicans think it's rigged, 65% of the Democrats, but it's comparable.
	And then they look at it, they break it down with different demographics, men versus women, different ethnic groups, and they're all pretty much comparable.
	People across all income levels as well, they all think about the same thing.
	I mean, the lower income levels, it's a high of 78%.
	And it comes down, only when you get above $150,000 does it get down to 61%.
	But the others are within 10 points of that, the other income levels.
	The big difference...
	It's in generations.
	People, the younger you are, the more likely you are to think that the system is rigged against you.
	because it's not a good system anymore for people to be able to make it in this country it is rigged against them it's rigged in terms of dei it's rigged in terms of so many different aspects of it and i think that especially when we look at the rhetoric going back and forth between musk and ramaswamy there is a great deal of that there we're supposed to believe that these guys have completely changed and yet they're showing what their true character is they're
	They're just like the rest of these people with big tech.
	They're into DEI. Anything but Americans is what they're looking for.
	People across age groups think system is rigged.
	81% of those between the ages of 18 and 30, dropping down to 58% for those who are 60 and above.
	So, it is a generational difference as well.
	Politicians rigging the system, the cronies who are perpetuating their viewpoints and their policies that benefit themselves and others at their station, and it's affecting those who are not aligned with their viewpoints.
	Well, again, it is, you know, Musk bought Trump.
	He wasn't acting as...
	And this is the big myth within MAGA. He saved free speech.
	He bought Twitter.
	He bought Twitter because he wants to know what you're thinking.
	He bought Twitter because he wants to sway you to his point of view.
	He bought Twitter because he wants to have a large platform, just like people are complaining about TikTok.
	He wants to have social media so he can feed the big data sets into his AI.
	All the rest of these things.
	And of course, for the same reason that Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post, because he wanted to have influence in Washington.
	Well, Musk went a lot bigger and he's got a lot more influence with Twitter.
	He's doing it for himself.
	He's not saving free speech.
	As a matter of fact, he just showed that he's not at all about free speech on Twitter.
	i've known that for quite some time some of these people that we're seeing they're mentioned because they would suck up to elon musk yeah i i tweeted out about that quite some time ago and i was surprised because i'm so heavily shadow banned i was surprised that matt trudge saw it um but uh i guess he's he's looking at my content still but uh But he posted my tweet up on the Drudge Report and kept it up there for three days.
	And I said, Twitter is actually worse for me.
	I said, what he's done, what Musk has done, is he's virtue-signaled by removing the restrictions on a few high-profile conservatives.
	But I said it's actually a lot worse for me than it was even under Jack Dorsey.
	So now these people are finding out.
	If you stop licking the boot, the boot kicks you in the face.
	That's what Elon Musk just did to people.
	Wine Press News says in May a survey found that a good number of younger Americans, millennials, and Zoomers believe the U.S. is, quote, a dying empire led by bad people.
	I would agree with him.
	Almost half the respondents said that strongly or somewhat agree that the winner of the presidential election would not change anything.
	And he points out at Wine Press News, he said, of course, that's what BlackRock's Larry Fink said.
	He said it doesn't matter.
	His plans, whether Trump or Lala won, and what are his plans?
	His plans are tokenization, securitization, and the great taking.
	And he knows he can get away with that, regardless of who's there.
	Why?
	Well, because he can buy these politicians, just like Elon Musk did.
	They are for sale, no doubt about it.
	Well, the billionaires and the tech barons are vying to build a private space station.
	And I wanted to talk about this.
	Before we get into the back and forth and the name-calling and all the rest of the stuff that's there, this is something I've talked about for quite some time.
	And that is...
	Jeff Bezos has been quite upfront about the fact that he wanted to have space stations, like we saw done in Elysium.
	As a matter of fact, I've got a clip of Elysium here to show what he is looking to do, what his aspiration has always been.
	There's a book called High Frontiers by Gerard Kea Neal.
	And that really resonated with me as an engineering student.
	And Bezos was an electrical engineer as well in school.
	And he came across it.
	He was a couple years younger than me.
	But he came across it.
	And it was such a captivating idea.
	But he's actually working on it, unlike me.
	I'm one of these low-achieving Americans here.
	But...
	This is something that is, you know, it was there and it came back with Bezos.
	It also came back with Hugo de Garris, who wrote a book on AI. And I interviewed Hugo de Garris.
	I don't share his perspective, his worldview at all.
	Hugo de Garis is an artificial intelligence scientist.
	He has worked for American companies.
	He worked for a while with China until he criticized China, and they kicked him out.
	They canceled him out of there.
	But he is an atheist scientist, and he really believes that you're going to get general artificial intelligence, and it's going to become not only human, but godlike, he says, right?
	And so he would always ask a question of his audiences when he's giving presentations.
	He would always ask them.
	And he was always giving it to groups of scientists.
	And he talked about this in the book.
	He said he'd yet to find any organization of scientists where he would say to them, if you knew that you were going to create artificial intelligence that became, let's say, self-aware like Skynet or something, and it killed everybody, would you still do it?
	And he said it never failed.
	More than half of them would say yes.
	I was not surprised because I saw this in the engineers that worked for the military-industrial complex.
	They had this strange way of not caring how their inventions were going to be used.
	And so for them, it was kind of an intellectual challenge.
	It was a puzzle to be solved.
	And they didn't really care what the consequences are going to be and how this thing is going to be used.
	So if you want to create some swarm of autonomous killer robots that could be used by some madman in Washington or elsewhere, yeah, I'd solve that problem.
	It was a brilliant solution, right?
	They don't care how it's going to be used.
	And so I wasn't surprised to see that.
	And he was surprised when, and I'd interviewed him several times, and we both spoke at a conference, and it was a lot of Christians that were there in the audience.
	And he said that was the first time that there was an audience that said no.
	They would not create something that could wipe out mankind.
	And he thought that was interesting, but that's kind of where he was coming from.
	In his book, the most interesting part of his book, though, instead of arguing about what the essence of intelligence is and talking about the spiritual issues behind it, the thing that I thought was most interesting about his book was what he talked about with the Artilect Wars.
	And he said, eventually what's going to happen is that this is going to accelerate the To the extent that the common people see where this is headed.
	And when they see where this is headed, they're going to come after the people like Elon Musk and Sam Altman and the rest of these people who want to enslave us into this technocracy that they want to build.
	And he said, their response is going to be that, because they've got superior technology, he said, I think that they will leave and go stay in these, like, Gerard K. O'Neill high frontier space stations, or what you saw depicted in Elysium.
	And he said, and I think that they'll defend themselves from that with their tech, and I think that they will attack the people who remain back on Earth.
	He called the people on Earth, called them Terrans, he called these people the Cosmists, the Elitists, and he said there'll be a war over artificial intelligence.
	He called it the Art-Elect War.
	And, you know, I thought that that was a very likely scenario.
	And now, the billionaires and tech barons, there's a whole bunch of companies that are now starting to build private space stations.
	And, of course, Jeff Bezos is one of them.
	And just to remind you of what it looked like with Elysium, Elysium was exactly the type of thing that had been talked about in iFrontiers.
	It looked like this.
	In the 2013 blockbuster movie, Elysium, we are introduced to a fictional space station of immense beauty.
	A luxurious wheel-shaped habitat floating in the heavens.
	Although it may seem out of this world, Elysium's design is backed by science and is actually very realistic.
	A hybrid of the bishop ring In Stanford Taurus, Elysium is a five-spoke, open-roof Taurus approximately 60 kilometers in diameter, located 20,000 kilometers above Earth's surface.
	It spins a whole rotation every six minutes to produce a force which imitates Earth's gravity, keeping the residents from floating out into space.
	To maintain its atmosphere, Elysium uses a thin layer of controlled plasma, strong enough to prevent air from escaping, but weak enough to allow ships to pass through.
	This technology is mostly fictional, and for a real station, we would build a solid glass roof.
	Anyways, Elysium has a depth of 2 kilometers and 377 square kilometers of habitable surface that can host up to 869,000 people in a suburban and luxurious environment.
	However, if Elysium's surface was an urban environment, it could host up to 10 million people.
	Yeah, each one of these space stations.
	10 million people.
	And that's what he's looking for.
	Now, I don't know that Jeff Bezos wants to live in one of these, but he would like for you to live in one of them.
	And he would like you to work for him in one of them.
	Talk about dropshipping something from Amazon.
	That's basically the way it would operate.
	In the original book, the idea was that they would set these...
	These toroidal, you know, donut-shaped things.
	There's a couple of gravitationally neutral areas.
	Actually, there's five of them.
	But there's two of them close to the moon.
	And so it's like a kidney-shaped orbit.
	And if you're in that orbit, the gravitational forces cancel out between the moon and Earth.
	And so you just stay there indefinitely.
	Okay.
	And so the idea that Gerard K. O'Neill had was that they would mine stuff on the surface of the moon, and they would sling it up to these space stations where it would just be captured.
	The way they would sling it up would be with maglev things, you know, magnetic levitation, rapidly accelerate the stuff up to escape velocity off the moon, which is less than it is off of the Earth.
	They would capture the stuff there.
	They could do manufacturing there because it's very easy to have cheap, available energy and space.
	If you want something that's super cold, you just paint it white.
	If you want it to be super hot, you paint it black.
	And of course, if you've got a temperature differential, that's what generating power is all about.
	And then after you do your manufacturing up there, and I guess, I don't know, the EPA might not have any...
	Jurisdiction there.
	Who cares about carbon dioxide?
	It'd be really hard.
	And they'll come up with something, right?
	But anyway, you do your manufacturing there, and you just shove it off and drop it down into the earth where it comes down.
	So that was the whole idea.
	And of course, he didn't have it with an open toroid.
	It was enclosed.
	It wasn't this plasma thing.
	I don't know.
	I don't think that that would...
	I think that was a fictional thing they did just for the movie to make that operate.
	But anyway, after three decades of circling the Earth...
	In 2031, the International Space Station, ISS, will be handed its last rites.
	And sometime in 2030, astronauts will leave the space station for the final time, assuming that they've got a working spaceship.
	These guys are still stuck there.
	They've just extended it again.
	The people that went up there on that leaky Boeing thing, I was amazed.
	I really...
	I was kind of surprised that they made it there.
	As a matter of fact, I wasn't surprised that they couldn't come back.
	But fortunately, they did make it.
	And so what they'll do is they'll just put it into a lower orbit, let the thing fall down to Earth, break up over the Pacific Ocean.
	If they get all the math correct.
	Let's hope they do.
	Get some Indians to do the math for them.
	And that's...
	The death of the ISS will mark the close of a major chapter in human space exploration.
	Until now, the space stations have been the preserve of nation states, with only the ISS and China's Tiangong in operation.
	The stations have required billions of dollars of investment and dozens of rocket launches to develop.
	But that could be about to change.
	Just as SpaceX has triggered a flood of funding into private rocket companies, private space stations have been raising billions of dollars in an effort to build future hubs and to put And so there's a whole bunch of different companies.
	One of them is Axiom Space.
	They raise more than a half a billion dollars.
	Another company, Vast, is a space business that is backed by crypto billionaire Jed McCaleb.
	He's the guy behind Ripple.
	He's plotting two space stations before the end of the decade.
	Another company called Gravitix, meanwhile, has raised tens of millions of dollars for its modular space real estate.
	NASA itself, along with other space agencies, is planning a further station, Lunar Gateway, which will orbit the moon.
	Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has announced plans to build a space station by 2027 called Orbital Reef.
	He's described it as an orbital mixed-use business park.
	Because, again, he's looking at the high frontier thing.
	He's going to be using it as a business park.
	He's going to be using it for manufacturing.
	I think they want us to live up there.
	They want to stay here.
	This is a big kind of timeshare scam, right?
	Until you get your spot up there and you can...
	Do six months up there and they'll pay you some money for that, that type of thing.
	Orbital Reef will be made up of inflatable pods, which can be launched on a regular rocket before being blown up in space.
	These modules could house in-space manufacturing or pharmaceutical technology.
	Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon, believes that before long, millions will live on space stations, he said.
	These are very large structures that are miles on end, and they will hold a million people or more each, he said in 2019. 10 million.
	That's what one of them could hold.
	So, space industry analysts say that this is still far from reality, but they're working on it.
	And again, you know, we'll have to see if they can get to the moon or not.
	That remains to be seen.
	I don't believe they did.
	There's no shortage of startups.
	And...
	Even though the ISS station began in 1998, it took 40 missions flown by both NASA's space shuttle program and the Russian rockets to build the base, and the total cost was estimated to be $150 billion.
	So these different companies that are entering this race, one of them has got a half a billion right now.
	But they don't necessarily need 300 times that much.
	As a matter of fact, one of the things that Musk's SpaceX has been able to do is to lower the cost of a launch for satellites and things like that from $450 million to $67 million.
	In other words, about a seventh of the cost.
	Since 2021, NASA has offered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to private companies to develop commercial space stations that could be the successors to the ISS. So far, it has handed $400 million to companies including Blue Origin, a Bezos company, Axiom, and to Northrop Grumman.
	The Space Agency's budget suggests spending on this program will rise to $435 million per year by 2027. One startup that has not secured NASA funding is the VastOne, which was, again, the guy that created Ripple, co-founder of Ripple.
	He's a multi-billionaire now, and he's going to invest $1 billion of his money into that.
	He said, we have set out a long-term vision in early 2021. We want to be the company that makes artificial gravity space stations a reality.
	That's what they're talking about.
	That's why they're spinning like that.
	It's been featured in science fiction, but it's pretty simple from a physics point of view.
	Our long-term view is that there will be more people living off Earth Then on Earth.
	That's what I said.
	I think they want to stick us up there so they can, you know, first they get us off the land.
	They take the land.
	We own the land.
	If you want to live somewhere, we can find you a job.
	Maybe if you don't criticize us, we can find you a job in space.
	Vast is the name of the company.
	They hope to launch the first space station, Haven 1, as soon as 2025. Privately run space station will be occupied by crew of four over four two-week expeditions.
	If successful, they're planning to launch a much larger permanent space station, Haven 2, beginning in 2028. So, you know, we'll see what happens, and they want to leapfrog that if they can show that.
	Make a case for it and say, look, we've already done this.
	They're hoping they can get some of that federal funding, you know, that is essential for all these guys to get what they want done.
	True government motivation for maintaining human presence in space isn't some desired economic return.
	It is geopolitical in nature.
	It is China.
	That's right.
	All this is, this is not about humanity.
	Reaching for the stars!
	It's not about that at all.
	Elon Musk is a military industrial complex contractor.
	He's a defense contractor.
	I don't like to call it defense contractor.
	They're not about defending us.
	But that's what this is all about.
	As a matter of fact, that was what Trump's big accomplishment, you know, was a space farce.
	My administration is reclaiming America's heritage as the world's greatest spacefaring nation.
	This is really from Spain.
	This is not a farce that somebody else did.
	This was actually produced by Trump's Space Force.
	This is their PR video.
	Boldly reaching into space now.
	And they've got like this Star Trek triangle on the back.
	There's no limit to our sky.
	We're the space for the sky.
	I tell you, I feel much better about our conflict.
	Now that is a parody.
	That was the show, Space Force.
	But it is as corny as that, isn't it?
	But if you think that that was funny, this is the real thing.
	All too often, I hear leaders talk about providing everyone with dignity and respect, but it's an aspirational goal.
	The Steve Carroll thing.
	That's not good enough.
	Dignity and respect is the bare minimum.
	It's the floor of where we can be.
	This is a guy with his hair pulled back, and he's got earrings, and he's a spokesperson for Space Farce.
	The Corporal Klinger.
	Not a Klingon, but he's a Klinger.
	Like from MASH. Yeah, those are the people that are going to...
	It's all about, you know, China.
	As a matter of fact, you know, when I... Like I mentioned about Hugo de Garris, I also talked to a guy who is...
	He's fully on board with all of these organizations...
	That are neocon, warmonger organizations.
	And Paul Charest, right?
	He wrote the book, Four Battlegrounds.
	And it was power in the age of AI. Well, what do they mean by that?
	They're not talking about getting all the power plants, giving AI nuclear power plants so that it has all the power and we have nothing.
	No, it was talking about geopolitical power, military power.
	And the whole book was about a war with China that they want to have.
	But I had him on and interviewed him because I wanted him to talk about AI and how it was being incorporated into weapons.
	So when we look at this, I'm going to get back to the elitism here of these people who have...
	Succeeded by getting the American taxpayer to foot the bill for their ventures, their subsidies.
	People like Musk, who has nothing but contempt for us.
	Look, all thieves think they're smarter than their victims, don't they?
	I'm entitled to that, because I outsmarted them.
	Whether you're talking about a white-collar person, or you're talking about some thug that breaks into your home.
	It's the mindset of a thief to think that they are better than the people that they stole stuff from.
	So, we'll talk about what's going on with the back and forth with MAGA people when we come back.
	I'll only get your comments here.
	TW97401 says, Help David start the new year by smashing that like button.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Yeah, the big red one that's on your desk there.
	A Syrian girl.
	Trump obviously never was an honorable student of the parapetic school.
	You remember that.
	How about that?
	Sure.
	That's impressive.
	I didn't mention it.
	We had to call the school the Peripetus Academy.
	We had to come up with something, so I thought, okay, well, you know, Deuteronomy 6 says that when you're in the way with your kids, you will talk to them about life and about values and all the rest of the stuff, and that was our intention with the school.
	And so that is called the peripatetic form of instruction.
	So we call it the peripatos academy.
	And of course we also use the academy because that was a way that...
	That was the way that Jesus taught his disciples.
	That was the way that Aristotle taught his as well.
	Plato, you know, let's go for a walk and we'll talk, you know, that type of thing.
	Usually we were in the car.
	We weren't walking, but we did a lot of car schooling because we were going from place to place back then.
	Radice Bro, thank you very much for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	It says, demoralizing as there is no hope in the future of your own country.
	As a young American myself with no house, barely able to make money with a constant burden of taxes, seen as worthless and dumb.
	Well, I understand from that standpoint.
	But here's the thing.
	You know, whether we're talking about economic freedom or we're talking about civil liberties or we're talking about the police and the surveillance state, We should not be those who are in despair, right?
	When we look at what is coming up this next year, perhaps, economically, what might happen with wars, all the rest of the stuff, we don't despair if we're Christians, right?
	What we do is we make our requests known to God, and we don't fret about it.
	And we have a different set of values.
	As a good example, I use the Amish who basically have just thumbed their nose at everything that Americans wore to own, right?
	We fight to get this and to get that, and we compete against each other.
	What have they said?
	Well, they created their own society, and they got their own values.
	And I don't know.
	There's unhappy Amish people, I'm sure.
	Some of them leave, right?
	But for the most part, they have kept this going for many generations.
	So I'd assume that there's a lot of people there that are perfectly content with that kind of system.
	So you may not be able to escape the confines of this.
	But you don't have to let your reality be determined by somebody else's values.
	Change what you value and focus on that.
	And I would just say, you know, to repeat what the psalmist said, I was young and now I'm old, but I've never seen those who follow God, I've never seen them Forsaken, and I've never seen their children begging for bread.
	Make that your focus.
	And that'll be a very important thing for you to have that.
	And if that is your focus, you can look at this stuff and you can laugh at it.
	Because you know that it's just temporary.
	Force and goal.
	Thank you for the tip.
	I appreciate that.
	If white-collar workers are getting replaced by AI, can Washington, D.C. get replaced by AI, too?
	Be careful what you wish for.
	I don't know that I want AI rewriting the Constitution.
	I don't know that I want AI judges.
	I don't know that I want AI police force, AI income, IRS workers, and all the rest of this stuff.
	I mean, we've got to be pretty careful about that, especially the way it hallucinates.
	I think it hallucinates more than Musk on ketamine, right?
	These artificial intelligence things.
	Guard Goldsmith says, I spoke with a high-tech employee yesterday.
	She confirmed what I noted.
	If the government restricts the H-1B, companies will just go to more telecom hires, distance hires.
	It's the edge of their calculus.
	Yeah, you know, when we had the lockdowns that were imposed upon us, I remember at the time, they had a proof of concept.
	So they had a convenience store.
	That's being restocked by a remote control robot.
	So I had a person who was working from home, and they had like a VR headset type of thing.
	And they were controlling a robot, you know, be able to pick stuff up and put it in there and do it all, you know, remote control VR headset.
	And I said, this is a proof of concept for them to be able to offshore the stuff to India or to China or any other country, right?
	They just give somebody the VR headset, they put the robot there, and then these people can do physical things like stocking the shelves.
	And they don't have to actually come here.
	They can still outsource the work without the people actually coming here.
	Yeah, there's a lot of different ways.
	That's how I say, you know, when we look at this...
	You know, these are things we can look at and we can see trends that are there.
	But the main thing I want people to understand is that if your life is defined by how much money you make or the job title that you have or something like that, you're going to be disappointed.
	Even if you're successful, you're going to be disappointed.
	How many people on their deathbed say, well, I wish in my life I'd spent more time with my family or I'd done this or I'd done that?
	And that's when we're talking about the culture that was inculcated in Taiwan.
	The guy that created, was it TMSC I think it is?
	The big company, they got a facility there in Phoenix.
	He worked for TI for like 30 years or something like that.
	And then he decided that he'd go back to Taiwan.
	And, you know, the people there, they just live to be cogs in a machine.
	Is that really what you want for your life?
	And it's a whole spectrum there, isn't it?
	I mean, you know, even when, even if you're not at that extreme, your life can still be all about your job.
	Not about your family, not about what you're interested in, not about God.
	Even if you incorporate all these other things, even if you've got hobbies and families and you've got all this work and everything, life is short.
	It's going to be over before you know it.
	And then what are you going to have?
	If you have God, you have eternity, right?
	Or if God has you.
	I should put it that way.
	Jason Barker, that's a lot of material to launch into space.
	What's the carbon footprint of a space station?
	We don't ask those kind of questions of Elon Musk.
	Jason, you're going to get banned on Twitter.
	Oh, that's right, you already are.
	Shadow banned for saying stuff like that, pointing out the obvious.
	Yeah, look, the launches, when he lit that one rocket, the big star lifter or something like that, whatever he called it, it blew the launch pad out.
	Biggest rocket ever.
	Bigger than the one that took them to the moon.
	If you believe that story.
	So this was a big, you know, it blew out the launch pad.
	And there's videos of it, you know, sending concrete chunks hitting cars that were, you know, many, many, many miles away.
	They didn't realize.
	And so, yeah, they don't care about that.
	That doesn't count.
	And all the jet fuel and all of the rocket launches that are part of their wars and all the bombs and everything?
	No, the bombs don't have any.
	Carbon content in them.
	They're not heating up the planet, are they?
	None of that stuff does.
	What do you want to bet that idiots who sign up for space life never make it back to planet Earth?
	Talking about population reduction.
	Yeah, that could be it.
	Stolen Hellcat.
	These lithium batteries are long-term garbage.
	Lead-acid batteries can at least be maintained with electrolytes and desulfater.
	Yeah, it is.
	It's becoming the bane of my life.
	Audi, Modern Retro Radio, good to see you there.
	He says to shield your eyes, I'm a black guy in his 50s.
	I have never known a single fellow black American who celebrates Kwanzaa.
	Well, if you find one, let me know.
	But do they celebrate Festivus?
	That's the question.
	Or is that just Rand Paul?
	He says, I think it's just another government agenda to divide.
	Stealth Patriot, thank you so much for the tip.
	I like to wish you and the Knife family a happy new year.
	Get ready for this ride.
	No seatbelt or helmet required.
	Yeah, it is going to be an interesting year, I think.
	Because we're getting toward the fourth turning, and things are going to accelerate.
	As I said, this next president is going to take us right through this fourth turning, the very tail end of it.
	And it wasn't a good choice, either one of these.
	Jerry Alitalo says, My smoking hot nine foot tall alien insectoid girlfriend are hosting a New Year's bash on their mothership.
	David Byrne will play Road to Nowhere at midnight.
	There you go.
	You're the one that's there in New Jersey, I guess.
	We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I wish I had the Christmas night album.
	You can get the Christmas night album at thedavidknightshow.com for just $13.99.
	It's right in the second floor there, see?
	What'd you wish, George?
	Well, not just one.
	Wish a whole hat for him.
	First, I'm going to thedavidknightshow.com and purchase the Christmas night album.
	Then I'm gonna listen to Christmas classics, like...
	Are you gonna throw it on?
	I want the Christmas Night album, too.
	Hey, that's pretty good.
	Buffalo gals, can't you come out tonight?
	Can't you come out tonight?
	David's Christmas Night album includes 21 instrumental Christmas melodies like God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Silent Night, and as all new, I'll be home for Christmas.
	What do you want?
	You want the moon?
	Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.
	I'll take it.
	Then what?
	And then I'll buy you your own download of David Knight's Christmas Night album.
	Why not?
	I mean, we are still within the 12 days of Christmas.
	I just learned that the 12 days of Christmas are not a lead-up to it, but actually after it.
	And so that was not a part of the tradition that we grew up in.
	But yeah, it's 12 days after Christmas.
	So we've got another nine days left of the 12 days of Christmas.
	So I guess we've just done the first three.
	Lord's a leaping, I guess, is today or...
	So there's that.
	Anyway, whatever it was.
	But yeah, we'll talk a little bit coming up about the controversy about It's a Wonderful Life.
	We've had a couple of controversies about it over the weekend.
	A couple of unusual things that happened.
	But before we get back to the spat between Musk and MAGA, I just want to wish happy birthday to Evan Cleland.
	And Pennsylvania!
	And his wife was kind enough to tell us when his birthday was.
	So we're more than happy to wish him a happy birthday.
	And I hope you have a good...
	His birthday was the day after Christmas, so I didn't see this while we were on break.
	But if your birthday is that close to Christmas, you probably want to spread things out anyway, right?
	That's what it was with my sister.
	Her birthday was two days after Christmas, and it was always an issue with her in terms of, you know, once a year instead of twice a year.
	You get everything there.
	Let's talk about the cracks in Trump's MAGA coalition.
	And what?
	The temper tantrum.
	The temper tantrum and the racist, hateful remarks from Ramaswamy and Elon Musk.
	It almost makes you wonder why they came here, you know?
	That's right, they wanted to get even richer.
	That's right.
	Vivek Ramaswamy.
	Vivek the snake, as Dr. Shiva calls him.
	And the two of them working on Doge.
	As I said, that is a dodge.
	It is not about making the American government more efficient.
	And again, maybe they're doing some things that you wouldn't want them to be more efficient at.
	But it really is about removing regulations that are going to help the two of them.
	And so, Ramaswamy had this to say about America.
	He said, a culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math Olympiad champ or the jock over the valedictorian will not produce the best engineers.
	We will have our asses handed to us by China, he said.
	Hmm.
	Well, I guess, you know, it's the American culture, he says, venerates mediocrity.
	I guess it's these good universities that we should be taking our cue from that pushed all this DEI stuff out there.
	Again, as I said before, when you look at what is celebrated, what they demand that you celebrate, It's not the prom queen anymore, unless you're talking about a drag queen prom, right?
	It's not the prom queen, it's the drag queen, not the prom queen that is being celebrated in our schools.
	And the values that are being put out there by the institutions that have been marched through by these Marxists are the problem.
	American culture...
	Used to not celebrate, you know, this is something that came about in the middle of the 20th century, right?
	And that was after a couple of decades of government-run schools.
	We started celebrating the prom queen and the jock, as opposed to celebrating Christian values.
	Again, I get back to that.
	Because, you know, the people that celebrated Christian values...
	We're the ones that handed the Japanese and the Germans their asses back.
	And there's a reason for that.
	As I said before, it's a blessing from God.
	And I'm not into celebrating the prom queen or the drag queens or the jocks or the valedictorians.
	I think we need to celebrate the one that deserves to be celebrated.
	That's Christ.
	Incoming White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller posted a 2020 speech in which Trump marveled at the American culture that had harnessed electricity, that had split the atom, and that gave the world the telephone and the internet.
	Well, again, this is a politician's speech.
	Watch his actions.
	Stephen Miller understands what MAGA wants to hear, but Trump understands what Musk wants to happen.
	That's the issue here.
	Now, this article from Yahoo immediately takes issue with that.
	Because, again, it's a symptom of people hating on America, right?
	It truly is amazing to see how this has just taken over our culture.
	I was going back and looking at some old videos of the time off and looked at some early stuff from Walt Disney and comments that he was making.
	You know, he used to celebrate America.
	He used to do films about Johnny Tremaine and things like that, the Liberty Tree, the Tea Party founding of this country.
	He did stuff about Davy Crockett and all that.
	He used to like America.
	And he was, even at his time, he was unique.
	Most of Hollywood hated America.
	He knew that it was, you know, most of Hollywood is being infiltrated by communists, by the Franklin School and other things like that, and he testified against him.
	But, you know, Disney now has been taken over.
	He'd be spinning in his grave if he knew what had happened with it.
	But as an example, Yahoo says, well, it was Michael Faraday, an English scientist, who discovered that electric current could be produced by passing a magnet through a copper wire.
	Yeah, but he didn't discover electricity.
	You had Franklin.
	It was a century before him, Ben Franklin.
	But of course, there was also the French scientists that we named Volt and Amps after.
	But there was a lot of people who had a hand in all of that.
	But they want to trash Americans.
	That's the purpose of Yahoo.
	I'm not here to debate who discovered what first and all the rest of this stuff.
	But they also said, and Ernest Rutherford, Was a New Zealander, and he was the one who first split the atom.
	Yeah, but he didn't make a nuclear bomb.
	And he didn't drop it on a couple of cities either.
	We've got to have America to do that.
	By the way, Michael Faraday, what they said was he discovered that you could get electric current.
	By passing a magnet through copper.
	That's electromagnetic induction and other things like that that he was focused on, the Faraday effect.
	But it wasn't a discovery of electricity at all.
	And they say, well, and Alexander Graham Bell, he was a Canadian citizen when he invented the telephone.
	He became an American citizen.
	It's like, well, as a matter of fact, before we leave, Ernest Rutherford, by the way, It was not the one who first split the atom.
	It was actually John Cockroft and Ernest Walton out of the UK. But see, the point is that they just want to trash Americans.
	Yahoo.
	It's typical.
	Typical of all of our institutions.
	They're all run by Marxists who hate America.
	And this article is a good example of it.
	And they don't even put anything there about the internet.
	Because, again, that was all America.
	That was, well, it was DARPA, you know.
	I guess that's America, you know.
	I don't want to claim DARPA as American, but, you know, it was a DARPA psychologist who came up with the idea of the internet, and that was largely done here in America.
	But, you know, again, it's just that they can't hide their contempt for America.
	That's my point.
	And neither can Elon Musk or Vivek the Snake.
	We welcomed the tech bros when they came running our way to avoid the third grade teacher picking their kids' gender and the obvious Biden-Harris economic decline, said Matt Gaetz.
	But we did not ask them to engineer an immigration policy.
	But that's what these guys are about.
	So looking forward to the inevitable divorce between President Trump and Big Tech, said Laura Loomer.
	How naive is that?
	You know, there are bonds between Elon Musk and Donald Trump that are much stronger than between Donald Trump and any of his wives.
	Because Elon Musk has got what Trump really loves.
	Money.
	His wives didn't bring billions of dollars to Donald Trump, and he's hoping that he's going to get that type of thing.
	We have to protect President Trump from the technocrats, she said.
	Just when he thought Laura Loomer was coming out of her trance, no, she's still there, she subsequently complained of censorship.
	After she was stripped of her paying subscribers on X, which is owned by Musk, she said, full censorship of my account simply because I called out the H-1B visas.
	This is anti-American behavior by tech oligarchs.
	What happened to free speech?
	Well, they never supported free speech.
	And again, this whole idea that Elon Musk bought Twitter, To say free speech.
	This has been the legend, the myth circulating around conservatives, around MAGA, around Babylon Bee, pushing all this kind of stuff.
	Now, as I said, just a few highly visible conservatives, and it's worse for everybody else.
	So Trump's borders are, as I pointed out, you know, we have this, again, we're going to create this Maginot line at the border.
	And that's going to stop illegal immigration.
	But we're going to open up for legal immigration.
	And so, again, we're going to just...
	Isn't it kind of what the Democrats are saying they were going to do?
	Remember when they had their Democrat debate, and they had like 16 of them up on the stage.
	And somebody said, so, would you make illegal immigration legal?
	And they all raised their hand.
	Yes, I would.
	Well, you just admitted that it's illegal.
	Yeah.
	And you don't like calling anybody illegal that comes here without permission.
	But of course, this whole thing has been gamed.
	And there's so much of an overlap between the illegal and the legal immigration of people being exploited by these body shops and all the rest of it.
	And it's because the government is involved in all of this and calling the shots.
	And because the government itself is corrupt.
	Trump's border czar, Homan, says the military bases could aid the deportation effort.
	They're looking at using military bases to detain migrants and military planes to boost deportations.
	Mexico is saying, we're going to build temporary housing and have it set up on the first day that Trump is there.
	And we've got an app to help Mexicans and all the rest of this stuff.
	And it's like, wow, you know, they're kind of war gaming this thing out as well.
	It's almost like...
	They've invaded the U.S. Kind of like that, isn't it?
	But when you look at how this is going to shake out, I'm just really wondering how Homan is going to go through this.
	Is he really going to go door-to-door separating families?
	And can you imagine the thousands of personal stories that are going to be out there and the heat that they're going to take?
	I don't think any of that stuff is going to happen, quite frankly.
	That would be, you know, it would be absolute...
	PR suicide, public relations suicide, if they were to do that.
	But they will continue to eviscerate what is happening with the American middle class, and nothing is going to change on that.
	So we have an anomaly.
	But here's a timeline of Trump on H-1B visas.
	He says, in 2016, Trump was a genom.
	He admitted that they undermine American values.
	Then Trump won the election.
	Then he caved on H-1B visas.
	Then he knew that he controlled the base and they would ignore it.
	Trump publicly argued in favor of H-1B visas in 2019 and 2020 on Fox News.
	Then most Trump influencers simply ignored it.
	Because they didn't want to jeopardize their access to Trump, you see.
	That's the whole thing.
	You ignore what Musk does.
	Or you ignore what Trump does.
	Because these brats that we call billionaires are used to having their way.
	And they demand total loyalty and no criticism.
	And if you criticize them, oh.
	And then finally he says those same Trump influencers...
	Lash out at anybody close to Trump that supports H-1B visas, and they act stupid as to Trump's own complicity.
	This is what we see with everything, right?
	You see these people lash out at anyone who supports the vaccines.
	Oh, like Birx and Fauci and Redfield and all the rest of this stuff.
	But not Trump himself.
	He's immune for all that.
	They do the same thing.
	That is the Trump delusion.
	You know, the Democrats have a derangement about Trump, and the conservatives have a delusion, except these other people are doing it because they want to, again, suck up.
	And, you know, Tim Pool is still doing that.
	He's still sucking up to both Trump and to Musk over this.
	So Anomaly says there's just too many phonies that prefer Trump worship and the opportunity it provides over doing legitimate journalism or activism or just principles, just principles, right?
	What are the principles?
	And what did he run on, right?
	That's the other issue here.
	Well, they're going to find out.
	Well, here's what Dr. Shiva had to say about this.
	And I mentioned this before.
	He talks about, he says, we've got seven steps here.
	And I would agree with him on these except for, he says, we're currently at step number four.
	I would agree with him except the very first one.
	He says, the first step is to destroy organized labor.
	Yeah, I look at organized labor because I was in a labor union.
	I don't know if Dr. Shiva has ever been in one or not, but I had to be in one musician's union, and it was the AFL-CIO, if I remember correctly.
	And I remember how they rigged it, how they taxed us.
	They took a cut of our jobs and all the rest of the stuff.
	And they had a guy at the top that was making a big, big salary.
	And I saw the inflexible rules that they had.
	And I've mentioned this before.
	The band that alternated with us had an accordion player.
	And he was having a real hard time getting jobs.
	I mean, there's not a lot of jobs for accordion players unless you're a weird owl.
	Weird Al Yankovic has got some pretty good jobs, but most accordion players are really struggling.
	He got a job playing for the belly dancers that we alternated with.
	They'd play a 30-minute set.
	We'd play a 30-minute set.
	And the musicians' union wrote him up, fined him, and all this other kind of stuff, because they had blackballed Busch Gardens.
	And the reason they blackballed Busch Gardens was because they had their rules that you had to make, I don't know what it was, like $4.50, $5 an hour or something at the time.
	Not big money, but it was okay.
	And they had to pay you, and of course, only hire labor, only hire union musicians, right?
	And this particular band that was behind the dancers that were doing the belly dancing, they had a...
	That sounds crazy, and it did sound crazy when you heard it.
	They had a clarinet player who was an anthropology professor from University of South Florida playing this summer gig.
	The accordion player.
	And they had a conga player.
	And I'll never forget his name was Flacco.
	I don't know if Flacco was a member of the union.
	But these other two guys, one of them was a member of the union.
	The accordion player was not.
	But the union had blackballed Busch Gardens because they only wanted union players.
	And they wanted a set to be 45 minutes and then a 15-minute break.
	Well, they wanted continuous entertainment.
	So we would do a half hour and the belly dancers would do a half hour.
	And then we'd do a half hour and that type of thing.
	And so all that stuff, and when you worked out what they were paying us, they were paying us just under what the minimum was for the union people.
	But since we were only doing 30 minutes instead of 45, it worked out.
	We're happy with it.
	We're happy to do that.
	And so I'm not a big fan of labor unions because I see them as just another layer of parasites, like the government.
	They're just there to take a cut.
	It's like a protection racket, like the mob or something.
	It'd be a shame if anything were to happen to that band that you got there.
	So, yeah, I would disagree with him on first taking out the labor unions.
	But I would agree with him pretty much on the other ones.
	Step number two, seduce and weaken the American workers so they don't want to go to work.
	Well, of course, we saw a lot of that happening with the lockdown and the stimulus checks and the extension of unemployment, training people to say, hey, just Just stay home and we'll still cut you a check-in.
	That didn't take any time at all, did it?
	Remember all this debate about, well, if we gave universal basic income to people, we'd pay them.
	Do you think that they'll stop working?
	It's like, well, of course they will.
	And, you know, it didn't take very long for them to really put a dent in the work ethic here with that.
	And that was Trump.
	Stage three, bring in foreign workers who will not fight for their rights, who will behave like robots and be happy as industrial slaves working for the Silicon Valley plantation.
	That's absolutely right.
	Because they are bringing them in for countries where they're desperately poor, but also where everything is focused on money, money, money, and peer pressure.
	Stage number four, have the workers who said this is where we are right now.
	Have the workers, brown, white, black, yellow, fighting among each other on discretionary polemics, H-1B, the wall, etc., while the swarm, government and big tech, consolidate power into a fascist state.
	This is where we are right now.
	You are here.
	The next stage, he says, is to replace those robotic people with actual robots.
	And then the question is going to be, and I've said this all along, then the question is going to be, will we just accept it?
	Or will we fight each other and get angry with each other, right?
	You know, they want us black, white, brown, red, yellow, all that.
	They want us fighting each other over these jobs.
	They brought everybody in.
	Because that way we don't fight them.
	And so that is part of it.
	And the other part of it, as Michael Bloomberg said, was universal basic income.
	We're going to have to get people money.
	So they don't come after us with guillotines.
	And then step six, make the carbon-based American workers poorer and poorer so they disappear and die quietly without a fight.
	Seven, establish Elysium for the elites, which is what I was showing earlier, right?
	They're already working on those bases that are there.
	He says, you know, go to his Shatter the Swarm and look at how you can organize From the bottom up, his motto is save yourself, because there's nobody in Washington that's coming to save you.
	You know, the cavalry isn't coming, right?
	So you're either going to provide for yourself, or you're not going to have it.
	Well, Brian Shalhavi at Health Impact News, as Elon Musk throws a temper tantrum and threatens MAGA Republicans with a war, quote, the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.
	Well, if I didn't dislike him before, I think I'd dislike him now.
	Throw his weight around.
	I'm going to have a war with you.
	You can't even imagine what I'm capable of doing.
	You can't do anything to me, Musk.
	I don't care at all.
	I've never cared about licking your boots.
	I will never care about that.
	As a matter of fact, this is given to me by whistler.
	This is a meme that's going around.
	And this is a Venn diagram.
	And you have General Custer and you got Elon Musk.
	And where they intersect in this Venn diagram...
	It's where it says, it's really not that many Indians, trust me.
	Well, I don't think...
	He's not a great general either, is he?
	But, yeah, just to emphasize the fact that, just like Custer, you can be enamored of your own press and think you're the smartest guy ever out there and that you can never fail.
	Having a lot of money doesn't mean that you're the smartest person out there.
	I always think back to a fiddle on the roof.
	If I were a rich man, and Tevye says, you know, if I were rich, I would sit in the gate all day and people would ask me all these questions, and because I'm rich, they think I really know, right?
	What happens when one psychopath billionaire, this is Brian Shalhavi, what happens when one psychopath billionaire tries to partner with another psychopath billionaire, and then they try to work together?
	More than likely, one of those psychopaths will come out on top.
	So it is that since the 2024 election, two billionaire psychopaths have been competing to see which one will come out on top.
	Trump and Musk.
	Well, the cracks in this relationship have been opening and expanding since the elections ended, where Trump told congressional leaders that, quote, Musk just won't go home because Musk was hanging around Mar-a-Lago.
	More cracks appeared in the relationship when a Trump rally in Phoenix.
	Trump apparently, Musk was not invited to participate.
	And at that speech, Trump said in public that Musk was not running the presidency.
	And he pointed out that Musk could never be president because he wasn't born in the U.S., but in South Africa.
	And I said this as well.
	I said, look at how it got under Trump's skin.
	When Steve Bannon was there and holding court with everybody, and everybody was calling him the president, and Saturday Night Live did a skit showing him as the brains behind the Trump presidency and all the rest of the stuff, and boom, he was gone.
	And when I talked about this, I said, but the difference is that Steve Bannon didn't have any money.
	Elon Musk does.
	And now we see that difference, because now Trump backed Musk against his own people.
	Why is that a surprise?
	Why are the MAGA people surprised that he would do that?
	I mean, didn't he throw the January 6th people under the bus after he picked their wallets?
	He left them twisting in the wind for what was coming because his lawyer told him to, right?
	Pat Cipollone.
	You mean Pat Cipollone doesn't understand history?
	He doesn't understand the First Amendment?
	He thinks that these peaceful protesters...
	Who are redressing their grievances against the government.
	He thinks that they should not be pardoned.
	He thinks that that can't happen, but of course it did happen, as I pointed out many times, by Andrew Johnson, by Gerald Ford, and so forth.
	Yeah, it's not the first time he's thrown his people under the bus.
	Before Trump has ever even taken office, Musk has become totally unhinged and has threatened MAGA Republicans who disagree with him.
	He says, and this is what he said, take a big step back and F yourself in the face.
	This is Musk.
	That's what I said.
	Is this the ketamine talking?
	He's bragging at the same time he's doing this about how he can handle the drugs, right?
	Except that because of his ties to foreign governments, and because of his open bragging about use of drugs, he can't get security clearance at some of his companies.
	But that's okay, because as Brian Shalhavi pointed out, he's not really running these companies anyway.
	He's the guy who goes around and schmoozes, and he's the chief lobbyist.
	Right?
	He's a guy going around handing out the money to the politicians and schmoozing with them.
	And then he hires people to run his company because he doesn't have the security clearance to do it.
	So he says, I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.
	Brian Schlauwe says this is what billionaire tyrants do when they cannot debate issues based on facts.
	And people do not see things the same way they do.
	They claim superior knowledge based on their wealth.
	And they threaten people.
	Yeah, because, you know, when you're rich, you really know.
	They really think they do.
	Republicans embrace our Prime Minister, Elon Musk.
	Remember that?
	That was just last week or so.
	Elon Musk goes to Congress and he's our prime minister.
	Republican members of Congress praised Musk's involvement in the government funding saga when they had all of this back and forth.
	Called him our prime minister.
	It's kind of interesting that we have a president, we have a vice president, we have a speaker.
	It feels like Elon Musk is our prime minister, said Tony Gonzalez, a Republican from Texas.
	We went on CBS's Face the Nation.
	I think Tony wants some money from Musk, don't you?
	And then Rand Paul saying, yeah, I think that we should think about him as Speaker of the House.
	And then he goes on Fox News and he says, well, that was a little bit tongue-in-cheek, but I do appreciate his input and his money.
	Maybe he's got some money he can input into Rand Paul's coffers.
	Senator Bill Haggerty from Tennessee said, thank God Elon Musk bought Twitter.
	Yeah, isn't that great?
	He saved us all by buying Twitter.
	Now he bought Twitter for himself, Bill.
	And when you look at what's going on with Doge, right?
	Here's a good example.
	I've already talked about how he said, you know, these subsidies for electric vehicles, they've just got to stop.
	Well, it's because he's already maxed out on the subsidies.
	He got there first.
	He sold a lot of electric vehicles.
	They had it capped at a certain number of vehicles that you get a subsidy rebate for.
	He's already sold all those.
	So now, as his competition from other car companies are coming in, he wants the subsidies stopped for them, for his competition.
	But Brian Shulhavi talks about a different aspect of it.
	The Trump team wants to scrap car crash reporting rules that Tesla opposes.
	Removing the crash disclosure provision would particularly benefit Tesla, which has reported most of the crashes, more than 1,500, to federal safety regulators under the program.
	So most of the car crashes are Tesla.
	I wonder if that has to do with the fully autonomous self-driving thing, which Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, said, I love my Tesla, but that self-driving thing is trying to kill you.
	Well, it did kill quite a few people, actually, because as Reuters' analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, crash data shows that Tesla accounted for 40 out of 45 fatal crashes reported To the NHTSA. 40 out of 45. Oh.
	Okay.
	It's like 88%.
	I got that math right.
	The recommendation to kill the crash reporting rule came from a transition team tasked with producing a 100-day strategy for automotive policy.
	The Trump transition team, Musk, and Tesla would not respond to requests for comments to Reuters.
	But, you know, hey, we get rid of the subsidies for my competitors after I've gotten them.
	We get rid of, you know, the crash reporting stuff since we've got 40 out of 45 of the fatal ones were us, and we've got over 1,500 reports that we've got there.
	Let's just not do that anymore.
	And so then he continued on with his tirade.
	He said, Americans are just too retarded for take jobs.
	And continued to censor critics.
	And this is on Christmas Day.
	Isn't it interesting to see these two petulant Ebeneezers on Christmas Day?
	What Donald Trump does, he goes, well, Merry Christmas to all you Chinese soldiers who are guarding, you know, Panama and the Panama Canal and how expensive it is for us and all you radical leftists and, hey, Trudeau, Governor Trudeau, because we're going to take over Canada and all the rest of this stuff.
	And they're talking about...
	He wants to take over Greenland.
	Greenland says, oh, we're not for sale.
	That's his wish list.
	What does Donald Trump want for Christmas?
	He wants Canada and Greenland.
	No, actually, he wants to be like Teddy Roosevelt and President Monroe is what he wants to be like.
	He's not going to be happy unless he's like them.
	And so he's out there just, you know, saying Merry Christmas and then spitting on people and all uppercase letters, you know, and criticizing everybody.
	And then his counterpart, Musk, is out there calling Americans retarded.
	These are great guys.
	I love these guys.
	Yeah.
	Bah humbug, they said, right?
	If you listen to this program, you know how much I love Musk and Trump, don't you?
	So on Christmas Day, Musk suggested that Americans need to double the number of highly skilled immigrants with the H-1B visa.
	Remarkably, he got ratioed on his own site, Twitter.
	By a small user who said that their son graduated with honors with electrical and computer engineering degrees in 2023 and, quote, cannot get an interview, let alone a job.
	And, quote, any white male he knew in college can't get jobs either.
	You see, this is the DEI stuff.
	Yeah, I saw this when I worked at Texas Instruments.
	There were some departments that had a guy that would be Taiwanese or something as head of the department.
	And they would only hire Asians.
	And you've seen this, haven't you?
	You've seen different groups who will come in.
	I've seen it at fast food places, right?
	You get somebody who comes in, maybe they're Hispanic, or they'll only hire other Hispanic people.
	But that's all okay.
	You know, it's only if white people do something like that.
	But I've seen this kind of thing.
	They will give a preference.
	It's not even the DEI thing.
	This is just a, you know, it's kind of a, I guess, standard human thing.
	But she pointed out, she said, you know, he's got engineering degrees, computer science, can't get an interview, let alone a job.
	And all the white males that he knew in college can't get jobs either.
	Many are currently working in data center jobs that don't require a college degree.
	Isn't that interesting?
	So even an engineering degree, if you're not the right ethnic group, can keep you from getting a job.
	Amid the tremendous pushback Musk was facing from the right, his Doge partner Vivek Ramaslimy came to his defense with a screed attacking Americans as a bunch of mediocre dullards raised on 90 sitcoms, he said.
	And this is coming from what I just quoted there is from Information Liberation.
	So...
	Yeah, all of this is really a rerun from their Spaces interview that they did.
	You know, when Musk interviewed Vivek.
	That's what they were saying on the whole time.
	Why is everybody surprised about this?
	I just don't understand it.
	Yeah?
	I've said this for the longest time.
	This is what Rama Slimy says.
	The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born and first-generation engineers over Native Americans...
	Isn't it because of an innate American IQ deficit?
	He says, a key part of it comes down to the C-word, culture.
	Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long.
	At least since the 90s, and likely longer.
	Isn't that interesting?
	The 90s, when the H-1B visa program began.
	And of course, after we started bringing in people like Rama Slimy and Musk, I mean, nobody can touch us now, right?
	No, actually, we're in deep decline.
	We're a declining empire run by evil people.
	He said, and he has a bunch of cultural references.
	I don't know what his culture is.
	This is not my culture.
	He says, a culture that venerates Corey from Boy Meets World.
	I have no idea what that's about.
	Don't care.
	Or Zach and Slater over Screech in Saved by the Bell.
	Or Stefan over Steve Urkel in Family Matters will not produce the best engineers.
	You know, I'm sorry, but I just didn't get any of those references wrong.
	I was too busy working.
	I was too busy in college to watch sitcoms.
	Don't tell me I'm not a hard worker, you piece of filth.
	What I didn't do is I never ripped off the taxpayer.
	I never took any money from the government.
	That's what I didn't do.
	But that's what you did, isn't it, Rama Slimy?
	It just irks me to have people come here to feed off of America and tell us how lousy we are.
	Go home.
	Go home.
	We won't miss you, by the way.
	Steve Saylor.
	Steve Saylor.
	Came back at Rama Slimy.
	He says, That's one of the best takedowns I've seen.
	Yeah.
	One person, Dick Chrisman, said, This is the darkest vision for America I've ever read.
	No sleepovers, no Saturday morning cartoons, no joy, nothing to look forward to, but endless grinding competition.
	Life itself sacrificed.
	And in its place, quote-unquote, success.
	That's what we're talking about with the corporate culture.
	Of TMSC, the Taiwanese Semiconductor Company, and others like that.
	That's the culture that they want to bring to us.
	One of the most noteworthy exchanges was Musk defending one of his ex-employees who went on an anti-white tirade.
	This is some guy.
	He's an ex-programmer called Cash.
	K-A-C-H-E. I guess it's Cash.
	And he says, laughing and telling people, shut the F up, white boy.
	What have you built?
	What have you invented?
	What has your father built?
	America.
	America.
	What you're here to steal?
	He says, we will be lucky to even get one child out of you.
	Do better.
	And then he says, I guess my genetic makeup is better than yours, potato boy.
	And Musk defends this guy.
	These racists, right?
	See, like I said before, racists will only hire people of their ilk, right?
	And then they'll accuse you of being racist if you criticize them for it.
	He says, if your race is so great, why am I out-competing you on every axis that actually matters?
	Well, you've got your standards and we've got ours.
	Musk agreed with this.
	And that's when he said Americans are too retarded.
	Somebody else agreed with it, and he liked that.
	He said Americans are too retarded to be hired by big tech firms.
	Musk says that pretty much sums it up.
	Pretty much sums it up.
	And he says, My tolerance for subtards is limited.
	My tolerance for your willful ignorance to the great replacement theory, said Real Ben.
	Came back at Musk.
	He says, Your willful ignorance of the great replacement theory, very well documented, easy to prove, is extremely limited.
	Understand that you are fueling a very dangerous fire right now.
	Don't play retarded.
	We know that you know.
	Critics of Musk noticed that their blue check verification badges started being removed.
	Again, you know, you want to play that game of sucking up to somebody, guess what?
	As soon as the sucking stops, they take everything away from you.
	And they tell you to shut your effing mouth, is what they kept saying, right?
	That's Musk and the other people there.
	A childish tantrum from the guy who was supposed to be so wise, isn't it?
	He wants his cheap labor, and he's going to get it one way or the other.
	On Thursday night, Musk announced that he'll be instituting what amounts to a new shadow ban system.
	It's nothing new.
	It's nothing new.
	I've been shadow banned there before he went there, but the shadow banning got even worse after he got there.
	He says, yeah, you'll still be there.
	But your reach will decline significantly, quote-unquote, is what he had to say.
	Well, that's it, you know?
	And like I said, it's nothing new.
	And I'm so done with Twitter.
	I don't care.
	Elon tanking all of his goodwill overnight was not foreseen, said one person.
	Musk and Trump himself have repeatedly shilled for more so-called high-skilled immigration.
	Musk last night shared his tweet from Malaysian influencer Ian Miles Cheung, says Information Liberation.
	Ian Miles Cheung has never stepped foot in America.
	He lives in Malaysia.
	He's never even visited here.
	But he spends his entire life on social media talking about America that he's never even visited.
	And so, Ian Miles Chung says, well, Trump understands.
	Because Trump said, if you graduate from a U.S. college, two-year, four-year, or doctoral, you should automatically get a green card to stay.
	So, if you get a two-year degree in women's study, you get an automatic green card.
	Oh, and guess what?
	You get preferential treatment on tuition.
	You can get in-state tuition anywhere, right?
	According to them, he said, too often, talented grads are forced to leave and start billion-dollar companies in India or China instead of here.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Take your two-year degree in women's study and go start a billion-dollar company in India.
	How about that?
	Trump's team walked back those comments, but Trump himself reopened them just a few weeks later.
	You see, it's the same thing that we see with the vaccines.
	You got all the people saying, well, Trump didn't mandate it.
	Well, you know, Trump is, and Trump is, I'm the father of the vaccine, you know, huh?
	And his team, and that would include the people in media, some of which now are, you know, people like Laura Loomer, people like Owen.
	Now they're getting kicked off because they're not stroking him anymore.
	The end result of these policies is, as everyone is rightly pointing out, are diploma mills churning out fake degrees to facilitate unlimited third-world immigration from India.
	And so, that is precisely what this is all about.
	Now, he doubled and tripled down.
	He called people who criticize this stuff contemptible fools, who must be removed from the Republican Party root and stem, said Elon Musk.
	Wow.
	This is a guy who just two years ago was a Democrat.
	But now he owns the Republican Party.
	He bought it fair and square, right?
	Right.
	I mean, he paid big bucks to get Trump, and who knows how much he's paid these other GOP shills to do anything that he says.
	And we got Rand Paul worshiping at his feet.
	Just like he bought Twitter.
	He bought the Republican Party.
	And you know what?
	I've got no interest in belonging to either of those clubs.
	I'm not interested in Twitter any more than I'm interested in the GOP. Neera Tenden.
	She wrote a post supporting Trump with all this stuff.
	Now, she is a lifelong Democrat activist.
	She worked for Clinton, Obama, and Biden.
	And Musk replied to her and said, yeah, you're absolutely right.
	These people are criticizing my immigration policies.
	These people who say, but wait a minute, Trump told us he was going to do this, and now he's doing exactly the opposite.
	Those people are contemptible fools, he says to the Democrat who worked for Clinton, Obama, and Biden.
	Those people are contemptible fools, and they've got to be removed from the Republican Party, says the Democrat, who was a Democrat two years ago.
	And of course, Trump is a New York City Democrat as well.
	So, you know, it's been, I don't know, I guess not a hostile takeover.
	They liked the money that they got.
	Nick Fuentes gets kicked off.
	He says, well, another December Twitter purge.
	Deja vu all over again.
	see nick fuentes is one of these high profile rabble rouser uh conservatives that got brought back by elon musk to show everybody how open-minded he was and how he supported free speech well i'll even support free speech for nick fuentes it's kind of like the aclu defending the nazis marching in skokie illinois but they won't defend an open ballot and open debates they ACLU would never do that.
	We'd contact them and say, you know, why don't you do something?
	We went through all the hoops and everything, and this is, oh, you know, we don't want you in the debates either, right?
	And so Elon Musk would put Nick Quentes on and, you know, make a virtue signal about how he's all about free speech when he wasn't.
	And again, when he's talking about the December Twitter purge, I remember when that happened.
	That was four years ago, 2020. I lost 30,000 followers one day.
	And, you know, shadow banning got even worse.
	That was before he took it over.
	Then it got even worse.
	So, Elon Musk says the point was not to replace DEI, which is one form of racism and sexism, with a different form of racism and sexism.
	Well, that's what he's doing, actually.
	So, when we look at it, it got quite nasty.
	And if you go back and you look at the statement by Donald Trump, his position on the H-1B visas.
	This was March 2016. We're in the middle of an election.
	You know, I like the candidate Trump much better than I like President Trump.
	And they are two entirely different people.
	It's like Jekyll and Hyde.
	Megan Kelly asked about highly skilled immigration, said Trump, March of 2016. The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration.
	These are temporary foreign workers imported from abroad for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay.
	I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney, see?
	That was still in the news then, when Americans were forced to train their foreign replacements.
	So, there he is.
	He's all over the issues, as usual.
	Now, what does he say today?
	Well, Trump came out in support of Musk, so we know which one of the billionaires yielded to the other billionaire, right?
	The one...
	The one that's got like, I don't know, what has he got?
	Six or seven billion?
	Trump does.
	Elon Musk is 500, you know, getting close to 500 billion.
	Trump says, I have many H-1B visas on my properties.
	I've always liked the visas.
	I've always been in favor of the visas.
	That's why we have them.
	I have many H-1B visas on my property.
	It's a great program.
	Donald Trump.
	No different from the program that he complained about with Disney.
	But that's the point.
	It's the hypocrisy.
	Regardless of what you think about these policies, the point is that Donald Trump can't be trusted.
	He can't be trusted to tell the truth.
	He has no principles, one way or the other.
	He's not looking at this and saying, well, the Constitution says this or says that.
	Or he's not looking at it and saying, yeah, but I promised my people I would do this.
	It's always up for renegotiation.
	And so we end with all this with a Trump flip-flop, with Trump doublespeak, with him ignoring his base and the promises that he had.
	And, of course, with Trump feathering his own nest.
	DG8 says, David Trump will mandate digital ID or a chip to stop the illegals.
	Unfortunately, his cult will go along, trusting the plan, making excuses, just like taking a little sugar water for Trump.
	That's right.
	And we see that they've got a whole bunch of things.
	Jobs come into it as well, right?
	You've got to have mandatory e-verify.
	Well, we've got to have biometric ID everywhere for everybody with that.
	And we've got to protect the kids on the internet because, you know, mom and dad can't be parents.
	The federal government needs to be parents.
	So we're going to have...
	Have to have an ID in order to get on the internet.
	All of these different things that they will come up with, the Republicans will come up with.
	That is what they're going to run out.
	He also says, David, the Trump cult is insane.
	Not one objection or calling Trump out for inviting Bill Gates to Mar-a-Lago.
	That's right.
	They're all making the pilgrimage.
	You know, you've got Bezos and Gates and all of them.
	They didn't make any...
	They made excuses for Trump when he went to Davos and hung out with Klaus Schwab.
	But when you have governors like Brian Kemp and Glenn Youngkin, you know, of Georgia and Virginia, respectively, when they go, oh, look at this, they're betraying us, they're going to Davos, and they're right about that.
	But when Trump does it, no, no, he's not betraying us at all.
	Even though he did it just before he did the globalist lockdown.
	The cult says it's so Trump can have him arrested.
	Bill Gates.
	Is that what they said?
	I have not seen that.
	We've got the birdhouse blues.
	So as borders are, does one have to hold experience as a crossing guard?
	On a resume.
	I like that.
	Crossing guards recruited me into being a libertarian when I was in first grade.
	I used to ride my bike everywhere.
	I would ride it back to the school property.
	I would have to cross the street on my own and everything.
	I remember one day this person was in my class, maybe a second grade.
	I don't know if they let first graders be crossing guards or whatever.
	I got this bright orange sash.
	And I'm looking and there's no cars coming and I start to go across the, I'm walking home, start to go across, no, don't do that, you know, got in all kinds of trouble with it because I did it anyway, you know, but it's like, what is it?
	You know, I didn't know anything about the Milgram experiment or the Sanford prison experiment or any of that kind of stuff.
	I didn't know how the power goes if somebody says like, you got this orange sash and now you think you have to tell me how to cross the street?
	Crossing guards.
	That's right.
	Does Tom Homan get an orange crossing guard belt and a whistle to signify its authority?
	I haven't even read that part of it.
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's right.
	Hi, Booth.
	David, if they even attempt mass deportation, it'll set off a civil war.
	And that may be what they want.
	I'm serious.
	That may be what they want.
	I think that's a big part of what this great replacement is about.
	It's about chaos so they can have control.
	Get Smart had that right, didn't they?
	They knew all about that.
	that.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	to the David Knight Show.
	Wow.
	All right, let's talk about something that's a little bit lighter.
	We've kind of worn out this other subject.
	There was a controversy about attire.
	The top-ranked player in the world, Magnus Carlsen.
	Left a tournament because they criticized his clothing.
	He was wearing jeans at the tournament, and the people running the tournament did not like the way he was dressed.
	He quit after being barred from a round in the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship because he was wearing jeans.
	And he is the top-ranked chess player in the world, Magnus Carlsen.
	And...
	So, you know, there's a slight variation in his telling of the story versus the other people there, but his fellow participants were very upset about it because when he left...
	Nobody really cared to watch because he was a top player.
	He says, first of all, I got a fine.
	He said, that's fine.
	Then I got a warning that I would not be paired if I did not go change my clothes.
	They said that I could do it after the third round today, and I said, I'll change it tomorrow if that's okay.
	I didn't even realize it today.
	They said, well, you have to change it now.
	He said, that point became a matter of principle for me.
	Supposedly what they did was they gave him a fine and demanded that he change his pants, but it was going to also take him out from some of the rounds or whatever, so he just walked on all of it.
	And so, you know, they're going back and forth, and these people say, well, we've got our standards, and we're going to have a dress code.
	And look, I'm all for that.
	You know, fine, whatever.
	It's a private organization.
	They can do that.
	Of course, you know, he has the option to walk out as well.
	But what I thought was interesting about this, the only reason I'm covering it, is because Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, noticed this, and he had an observation about how Zelensky dresses.
	Yeah.
	I wonder if Sergey Lavrov is a listener of the program.
	He says, he expresses shock at the International Chess Federation's harsh dress code enforcement, which led to, oh, he's from Norway, Norwegian champion Magnus Carlsen storming out of a tournament in protest.
	The diplomat noted that Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky gets away with routinely flouting formal dress code at all official international events.
	Something I noticed, too.
	Speaking to a Russian newspaper on Sunday, Lavrov said the fact that world champion Magnus Carlsen was essentially booted out of a competition for appearing in jeans leaves me surprised, if not dumbfounded.
	Then you have to kick Zelensky out of everywhere over the dress code.
	He said that would solve many problems.
	And here's a guy, he makes a lot more money than Magnus Carlsen does.
	I don't think there's any...
	The chess players that are getting tens of billions of dollars, you know, and of course, a lot of that's being skimmed off by Zelensky and his ilk.
	The most corrupt government in the world, said Bill Gates, and he would know because he's probably got a black book of who he can bribe everywhere.
	He's dropping money and bribes.
	That's how these people become so wealthy like Elon Musk and the rest of them.
	So he knows that it's perhaps the most corrupt country in the world, maybe outside of the United States.
	We've got so much money.
	Where do all the crooks go?
	Well, why do you rob the banks?
	Well, that's because that's where the money is.
	Well, all the crooks are coming into Washington now.
	You just look at the – it's exploding more than the debt is exploding, and that is the amount of money that's being given to politicians, simply because they can multiply their money by buying these politicians.
	But I thought that was kind of funny that he – He actually talked about Zelensky, just as a reminder.
	Hello, it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky.
	I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years.
	You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America, I could dress better.
	And I could, if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful grey MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the MacGuffin logo in blue.
	But he told me to get lost.
	Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at the davidknightshow.com.
	And David is giving a 10% discount to listeners from now until 2025. At that price, you should be able to buy me several hundred.
	Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful.
	I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.
	If you want to save on shipping, just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the USA. Yeah, there we go.
	And maybe you could buy something for Magnus Carlsen as well.
	Well, unfortunately...
	One of the most evil people from the COVID scam, Leanna Wynn, is back.
	This person, highly suspect.
	You know, she just happened to be there at the Boston bombing and all these other things.
	She just keeps showing up everywhere to...
	As kind of a sigh-up.
	And she's now back pushing the new bird flu vaccine.
	Well, it's actually not a new vaccine.
	We've got a profile on what this thing is really like.
	But listen to her now.
	She's trying to push the bird flu panic and also push the bird flu vaccine.
	What should be happening in the Biden administration right now that isn't going on?
	Yeah, there are two main things that they should be doing in the days that they have left.
	The first is to get testing out there.
	I feel like we should have learned our lesson from COVID that just because we aren't testing...
	Not to listen to her.
	That's the lesson we should learn.
	...that we aren't looking for it.
	we should be having rapid tests, home tests available to all farm workers, to their families, for the clinicians taking care of them so that we aren't waiting for public labs and CDC labs to tell us what's bird flu or not.
	And the second very important thing is this is not like the beginning of COVID where we were dealing with a new virus.
	We didn't have a vaccine.
	There actually is a vaccine developed already against H5N1.
	The Biden administration has contracted with manufacturers to make almost five million doses of the vaccine.
	However, they have not asked the FDA to authorize the vaccine.
	There's research done on it.
	They could get this authorized now and also get the vaccine out.
	So and to farm workers and to vulnerable people.
	I think that's the right approach because we don't know what the Trump administration is going to be doing around bird flu.
	If they have people coming in with anti-vaccine stances, could they hold up vaccine authorization?
	If they don't want to know how much bird flu is out there, could they withhold testing?
	I mean, that's a possibility.
	And I think the Biden administration in the remaining days should get testing and vaccines widely available so that at least it empowers state and local health officials.
	Dr. Nguyen, is bird flu in humans super dangerous?
	Well, the World Health Organization estimates that in prior outbreaks of the bird flu, that the mortality rate is 52 percent.
	Oh, she is such a propagandist.
	It seems that most cases have been wild, and maybe some people even have asymptomatic infection.
	But the question is, we don't know what happens when bird flu affects more vulnerable individuals.
	People infected so far in the U.S. have been mainly farm workers who are working, presumably.
	Well, that's enough of her.
	I can't take that any longer.
	This is already out there.
	As a matter of fact, this is tweeted out by Nicholas Hals here.
	He said, the bird flu vaccine she once approved for humans is called Audenz, A-U-D-E-N-Z. It's made by CSL, Sequirus.
	Humans injected with this died at a ratio of 1 out of every 200, compared to 0.1% in the placebo group.
	In one of the clinical trials, this deadly injection, and that's what you see right there highlighted, this deadly injection must not be authorized for human use.
	Isn't that amazing?
	You know, she's pushing this thing.
	Well, we need to do some testing, and we've got to get more testing that is out there.
	And you notice that she said, you know, it can have 52%.
	This is...
	She's a much better propagandist and liar than Robert Redfield is.
	He said, well, you know, if it gets out there in population, if it mutates and it gets to humans, and it's just inevitable, it's going to kill 25 to 50% of the people who get it.
	How do you know that?
	Because it hasn't mutated.
	And it isn't spreading.
	And it isn't causing any respiratory issues.
	And nobody has died.
	Right?
	These are the same people who want to tell us that 52% of the people that get it are going to die.
	You'll see mainstream media articles that will tell us that there's been...
	Here we are, right here.
	This is on Zero Hedge, and it's coming from Epoch Times.
	And they're all of them.
	I've got WND, World Net Daily.
	I've got Zero Hedge.
	I've got Epoch Times.
	These are all conservative papers that are feeding MAGA people lies.
	And they said, a total of 65 human cases of H5 bird flu.
	Well, then that would mean that you've got, you know, 32, 33 people who have died, right?
	Except nobody died.
	Nobody died.
	And they come back and say, well, it might be asymptomatic.
	So you've got something that goes from asymptomatic, no symptoms whatsoever, all the way up to 52% of the people die.
	Does that pass a sniff test?
	Anybody out there want to do some critical thinking about that?
	There's no way that that's true.
	There's no way that this could be something that's so, you know, they're projecting all this stuff, telling you horror stories about something that they don't even pretend to have any data on.
	And to say that half of the people, 52%, see, it's not even a range like Redfield put out.
	She puts 52% like they actually know.
	It's important to put that 2% in there.
	Because now it sounds like they've done a precise measurement.
	That's what it's all about.
	It's all about bluffing people.
	And this is coming from the Epoch Times.
	It's put back out as propaganda from Zero Hedge.
	The CDC has found mutations and samples taken from a man infected with the first severe case of avian influenza in the United States.
	And we talked about this last week.
	Yeah, but he hasn't died.
	And no, it's not clear that he's got any respiratory symptoms.
	They don't talk about the symptoms.
	Other people, they say, yeah, they got pink eye.
	They got pink eye.
	They worked on a farm.
	They didn't wash their hands.
	They got pink eye because they rubbed their eyes.
	They said this strain differs from the B3.13 genotype detected in dairy cows, human cases, and some poultry across the United States.
	So they pretend that this is different.
	And here's the big thing.
	They pretend that they've isolated it.
	Not only have they isolated it, but they've done genetic testing on it.
	All of that is a lie, folks.
	And we know that's a lie.
	Because we had, and I forget that, Christine in Canada and several other people had contacted hundreds of public health and state health, you know, national health services, saying, can you give me the isolated COVID virus?
	And more than 200 of them replied.
	And said, no, we don't have it isolated.
	Some of them said, we never isolate it.
	Never isolate these viruses.
	And yet here they are pretending yet again.
	And I heard all this stuff.
	I had people when I was at Infowars, regular guests that would come on with Alex.
	A couple of them came on with me and said, yeah, this has been designed.
	It's got this little hook on it.
	And it binds, especially designed to, you don't know any of that stuff.
	You're just passing lies on that you've been told.
	And now they're saying the same thing again.
	They're saying this showed low-frequency mutations in the hemagglutinin gene.
	The mutations are not found on poultry samples collected on the patient's property, suggesting that changes emerge from the patient after he became infected.
	It may result in increased virus binding to cell receptors.
	You see, we heard all this nonsense before.
	When will we ever learn?
	I won't mention his name because I like him, and he's an expert in some other areas, but it's not his expertise.
	A guy came on my program, regular on InfoWars, and he said, yes, and I said, after he got off, I said, never have him on again.
	Not even to talk about what he knows about it.
	You know, he's an expert in some other stuff.
	But I'm never going to have that guy on again.
	Notably in this case, no transmission from the patient in Louisiana to other persons has been identified.
	Oh, wow, okay.
	And he didn't die, or you know that would have been headline news everywhere.
	If he had died from something else, he would have blamed it on bird flu.
	He didn't.
	And so, are there any respiratory issues?
	Oh, they don't say it.
	Does he got pink eye?
	They don't say it.
	The CDC, though, said the risk to the general public remains low.
	Well, that's good.
	Because, you see, what they're doing right now, it's not good.
	Because this is the way the PSYOP runs.
	This is the normalization stage.
	And what they're doing is a constant stream of information out there.
	And then at some point, they tell you, okay, now, panic.
	Now we hit the panic button.
	Be afraid.
	This is the way this whole thing is running out.
	CDC confirms the first severe bird flu case.
	This is the headline from WND, another conservative media site, just repeating everything that they said.
	And again, they focus on backyard birds.
	Because this is about taking away our food supply.
	And in this article put up by WMD, who do they quote?
	They quote the Associated Propagandists, AP. They quote Politico.
	They quote Deborah Birx, who says, our number one principle in preventing pandemics is to detect.
	We're monitoring more than 10,000 exposures, but we've only tested 530. That means that we're not testing enough.
	And a lot of the spread can be asymptomatic.
	Well, if it's asymptomatic, why are you afraid of anything?
	You don't even have any symptoms, right?
	Oh, but we've got to do more testing, more testing.
	The testing is how they create the pandemic.
	And that's exactly what Leanna Nguyen said as well.
	This article from WND quotes the CDC. They quote the Associated Propagandists.
	They quote Politico.
	They quote Deborah Birx.
	They quote Scott Gottlieb, another health policy veteran from Trump's first administration.
	No, he's another health policy whore.
	This is the guy, Scott Gottlieb, who ran the FDA. He goes to Pfizer afterwards to collect his paycheck, to get paid off.
	He said agricultural officials did just about everything wrong over the last year, hoping that the virus would burn out, but it didn't, said Scott Gottlieb.
	I wonder what he's going to sell with all this stuff.
	You know, Mary Talley Bowden, who's an MD, posted up on Twitter.
	She said, Friday, two powerful people reached out to me asking me to be a team player.
	She said, I'm trained to triage not to compromise.
	She said, they both told me that Trump will never, will never back down from the shots.
	Really?
	I could have told you that, right?
	I mean, look at how he has bragged about it.
	Look at how he bragged about it up until like the spring when he was running for re-election.
	And everybody was telling him, you know, Wayne Allyn Root, Alex Jones, everybody, stop bragging about the vaccine.
	You know, everybody's on to it.
	They know it's fatal, right?
	So we can't tell them it's sugar water anymore.
	And you can't keep bragging about being the father of the vaccine, but he can't help himself.
	This is ego.
	And so he'll never back down from the shots, she said.
	These two people contacted her and said, we want you to be a team player.
	In other words, what they want her to do is they want her to lie for him.
	Be a team player.
	Get on the Trump team.
	And lie for him, like Alex Jones and other people have done, right?
	So it really doesn't matter, she said, who is appointed to HHS because Trump isn't going to back down from these things.
	And by the way, when we're looking at it, look at the Maha Ball.
	Maha Ball.
	The Maha Inauguration Ball.
	And here's the thing they're posting up.
	You can attend and get, you can, they got the gold ticket and they've got the silver ticket.
	And so the gold ticket, and I'm not going to read you all the things that it buys you there, you know, access, right?
	You can get a gold ticket for $30,000.
	You can get a silver ticket for only $10,000.
	Maybe I'll get a silver ticket for all three of us while I'll go.
	If you're a cheapskate, you can get the $500 ticket, but you've got to stand outside in the cold until after 9 p.m.
	You can't get in until 9 p.m.
	It's like one person said, so are there going to be heaters outside where we're standing and waiting before we can get in at 9 p.m.?
	This is the Maha people.
	This is all window dressing.
	Nothing is going to change.
	It's a scam, folks.
	It's a total scam.
	Handy says, I'm waiting on one of these infectious disease, quote unquote, patients to be declared bird flu that he sees.
	And he sent this email to me about what's going on there in Atlanta.
	Where is EMS? He said, This
	would not be something that they would, you know, again, if you believe the virus paradigm, as I said, a N95 mask isn't going to protect you from any of that stuff.
	And we know going back to 2002 in Australia, they said, we're going to fine people if you tell people these masks protect them to this very day.
	As Gerald Slenty is pointing out, he pulls up the box and says, look, it doesn't protect you against any diseases.
	So is it that these people in the hospitals can't read?
	Is it that they don't have any critical thinking?
	Or is it that they're being paid to lie to you?
	They're being paid to push a pandemic again.
	He said every nurse that enters a room must don the entire ensemble.
	Let me know handy if they got to do any choreographed dancing too, okay?
	The tick-knock nurses.
	I also noticed the PCR swabs are back as well.
	One thing I overheard was that these were all, quote, COVID patients, unquote.
	This sewage, he writes it, S-O-I-G-E, this sewage in door hangers isn't something we've seen since the scare campaigns of 2020 and 2021. Maybe it's something, maybe nothing.
	I work again tomorrow, so we'll see if I can get closer.
	Have a better quality picture of the scarlet letter.
	As a side note, there's one additional room with a door hanger that isn't in the picture.
	That one belongs to a patient I brought in for sepsis last night.
	He had a fever, a cough, and eventually low blood pressure after being in the ER for a few hours.
	The first of those door hangers in the picture was put on the door.
	And I didn't pull these in and get them into the...
	But he documented what he had there.
	But...
	He said, I grabbed another COVID swab for examination on the microscope.
	You never know what you're going to find there.
	Yeah.
	Like a box of chocolates, isn't it?
	Especially when you've got a PCR. You can find any kind of chocolate you want in those PCR swabs.
	Well, you can beat the flu without vaccines and drugs, as Brian shall have you on Health Impact News.
	Vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc.
	That's really all you need.
	He just put out a reminder that Big Pharma's flu products are highly toxic.
	And their number one product is a flu shot, which can injure, cripple, or kill you.
	As a matter of fact, before the COVID shot, before the Trump shot, that was the one that had the most adverse effects of any of them.
	Is COVID shot condemnation going mainstream?
	Asks the Gold Report.
	Well, everybody's gotten the message, except nothing is going to happen with Donald Trump, right?
	The MAGA people.
	Even hate the shot.
	But they love the father of the shot.
	A new research paper has been published containing such a comprehensive and detailed critique of the COVID shots that some have concluded that the tide against experimental mRNA vaccines has begun to turn.
	While their optimism may be misplaced, the paper is novel in many significant ways.
	Let's look at how it's novel.
	They said this is interesting to talk about this paper because it calls the shots, quote, experimental agents that deploy gene codes.
	Now, if you're a listener of this program, you know that for four years I've been calling them the GCI, the genetic code injection.
	Is that novel?
	I don't get no respect here.
	I'm the Rodney Dangerfield of the pandemic.
	I called it a genetic code injection for four years because that's what it is.
	And now this is a paper that calls it, in their words, Experimental Agents that Deploy Gene Codes.
	The research paper is titled, Pharmaceutical Product Recall and Educated Hesitancy.
	See that?
	See that, Rand Paul?
	You got so angry with Dr. Fauci?
	You're creating vaccine hesitancy by doing this kind of stuff.
	Shame on you.
	Shame on you, Rand.
	You're a doctor.
	You should know better.
	Right?
	Go put on your mask and shut up.
	I mean, it's just, it's educated hesitancy.
	We're hesitant because we know what this stuff is.
	And you should know what it is as a doctor as well.
	In the last seven decades, from 1953 onwards, more than 462 medicinal products have had to be recalled from sale because of adverse drug effects that frequently include fatalities.
	The median interval between the first reported adverse reaction and the year of first withdrawal for a drug is six years.
	And then, of course, you've got some of them, like the chloroquinalin, that have been harming people for nearly 50 years.
	And they won't pull it off.
	So, yeah, the pharmaceutical industry, an ongoing crime scene.
	Amos Poole, thank you very much for the tip.
	Which one of you is the rich little wannabe?
	Some pretty good impersonations in your ads.
	That was all put together by Whistler, and he's working on some other stuff as well.
	But the vocal cloning is a little bit of art to it, but it's also AI. So you can clone somebody's voice.
	That's how they got the spot-on voice.
	Stuff of Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed.
	You can clone the voice, but you still got to get the inflection correct.
	And that's where right now, where the art comes in, is trying to get that in there.
	But yeah, Karen put together the idea for that commercial, and Whistler did the whole thing.
	We're almost out of time, and so I'm not going to take a break.
	Instead, I want to talk a little bit about the economy.
	Because we've had the Federal Reserve...
	Talking about how all jobs created in the second quarter were fake, and now they're doing it again.
	And, you know, I talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
	They said, well, we went back, and it looks like there were 23 states where the unemployment was unchanged.
	One was revised higher employment, and 25 were actually lower than we told you.
	And that's in addition to the 800,000 jobs that they just lied about and made up.
	You see, the government, when they're talking to you, They always lie.
	It doesn't matter whether it's inflation numbers, whether it's job numbers, whether it's COVID cases or bird flu cases.
	Everything they tell you is a lie.
	And so when we move forward with this, of course, the immigration numbers are a lie.
	The H-1B visa numbers are a lie.
	How does all this work?
	Everything they tell you is a lie.
	But in Germany...
	Almost all sectors are considering job cuts.
	And so things are not looking that great in the US, but they're looking even worse in Germany.
	Bankruptcies are growing there by double digits.
	The employment barometer is at its lowest level in four years, matching the low of the so-called pandemic lockdown of 2020 in Germany.
	You've got Volkswagen looking at layoffs for the first time in its corporate history.
	And, of course, the government's role in all of this, they say, well, it's lack of orders.
	Well, that's a bad economy.
	High labor costs, energy costs, and high regulation.
	The energy cost and the high regulation is 100% the government that is there.
	100%.
	And so the proportion of companies that are wanting to cut jobs is increasing.
	Almost all sectors are considering job cuts.
	The auto industry, of course, and its suppliers, the hardest hit.
	But now it's hitting the retail people.
	Well, of course, because retail is downstream from manufacturing.
	Manufacturing is where you build your wealth.
	But the manufacturing has been outsourced to China because of the Paris Climate Accord.
	They've been given a monopoly on cheap energy.
	You're not going to be able to out-manufacture them or compete with them when they have that kind of advantage in energy costs.
	They said tourism is hiring in Germany.
	That's about it.
	You're taking each other's laundry or something, right?
	Turning Germany, the economic powerhouse of Europe, into a third world tourist destination.
	The data shows the year-over-year growth rates and insolvencies have remained in double digits since June of 2023. AFD, the Alternative for Deutschland co-leader Alice Weidel, called German Chancellor Olaf Scholz The, quote, Chancellor of Decline to his face.
	Well, it's worse than that.
	He's a traitor to his own people.
	A sustainable economic turnaround is not yet foreseeable, said the Federal Ministry of Economics there.
	Trump is promising to hit Europe and China with tariffs as high as 25%, and Germany is expected to suffer greatly if such tariffs are put into place.
	But surprisingly, there's questions about China's economy.
	Just as our government lies about everything, so their government definitely lies about everything.
	So you have to kind of rely, not on official stats, but on anecdotal reports.
	And so this anecdotal report came out with somebody saying, look at how empty this train is.
	And other people are putting up stuff in Beijing, the capital, saying, look at how empty everything is.
	I'll play a little bit of this for you.
	The sleeper train from Shanghai to Beijing is about to depart.
	There's literally no one in the entire car, just me.
	This guy put this out.
	I'm sure that hurt his social credit score.
	Look at this, all empty.
	The entire carriage was empty, except for him.
	His videos sparked lively discussions online.
	Some people commented, The Beijing-Shanghai line is one of the busiest routes in China.
	It used to be hard even to get a ticket.
	The Chinese New Year travel rush is just a few days away, yet it's so quiet now.
	It must mean that the economy is really struggling.
	Others found it hard to believe.
	No way!
	Even if the economy isn't doing great, it can't be this bad, right?
	A few joked.
	Wow, how luxurious.
	Renting out the whole carriage.
	The high-speed train ride from Shanghai to Beijing takes about four hours.
	Midway through the journey, Mr. Yang updated his viewers, saying, Even now, it's still just me in the carriage.
	Honestly, it's kind of creepy.
	Has Beijing, one of China's major cities, really gotten this quiet?
	It's noon, and there's not a single person eating out.
	Where did everyone go?
	This is another person.
	I'm trying to doubt if I'm really in Beijing.
	I'm heading to Yonganli Station on Metro Line 1, and this subway line barely has any passengers.
	It feels so strange.
	This is Xidan at 8 or 9 p.m., one of the busiest areas in Beijing.
	You can count the pedestrians on one hand.
	There are some festive decorations, but there's no holiday atmosphere.
	Now, I've got to say, that is absolutely amazing.
	One of the things that was so astounding to us when we went to China was it was packed with people everywhere you go.
	I mean, sidewalks were full.
	You couldn't even, in a retail area, you could barely move.
	And it was in that context that they pulled up with an armored car one day.
	And this guy jumps out of the car, and he's got a shotgun, and he levels it at the crowd.
	And we're there, and I said, let's get out of here.
	I don't know what it takes.
	But, I mean, it was to intimidate people.
	It intimidated us.
	It's like, I don't know if somebody's going to do something.
	But it was just amazing how crowded it was to see this empty.
	Look, there's something really big brewing globally in the economy.
	And yet, Trump is going to jump in and tell these people that we're going to have massive tariffs?
	This could be very, very interesting times we're going to be living in this next year.
	So again, protect yourself.
	The crypto stuff, now you've got all these people saying, well we don't think that Trump is going to use it as a reserve thing this year.
	That's the happy news that was feeding that rally.
	Focus, folks, on things that are solid, that are tangible, that are private.
	Gold and silver.
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	He's got a lot of different ways that you can gradually start accumulating gold, or he can handle large or small amounts as well.
	Thank you so much for joining us.
	Have a good day.
	Hello, it's me, Volodymyr Zelensky.
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	But he told me to get lost.
	Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at the davidknightshow.com.
	And David is giving a 10% discount to listeners from now until 2025. At that price, you should be able to buy me several hundred.
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	I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various galas and social events.

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